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SMlTIiSOXIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS 



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shoulder, and carried the common short bow, backed with sinew [a, fig. 3!, 

 and arrows pointed with stone, both tolerably well made. With all these 

 Indians, the arrow-points are fastened into a short piece of wood, which in 

 turn is fixed, though but loosely, into the shaft. The quiver, of dressed deer- 

 skin, holds both bow and arrows. They had also, suspended round the neck, 

 small nets, neatly made after the fashion of the common game-bag ; the twine, 

 which was very even, being of course their own work. 



The last part (if otn- niarcli led us into a thick redwood forest. 



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Fig. 3. — Specimens collected by George Gibbs on the Klamath River, California. 



a, sinew-backed bow, length 34 inches. U.S.N.M. no. 649; /', basketry hat, 

 diameter 7 inches, depth 4 inches, U.S.N.M. no. 7556; c. basketry hat, diame- 

 ter 7I inches, depth 4 inches, U.S.N.M. no. 7558; d, headband, U.S.N.M. 

 no. 7520; c. two sections of d, X approximately 2.5. 



Saturday, Scptcuihcr 6. — Indians visited the camp but they were 

 of little interest, and (p. 124) : 



I endeavored in vain to get from them the names of articles at hand, parts 

 of the body, t&c, as they either could not or would not understand the object 

 of the inquiry ; nor was our Clear Lake Indian more successful after his 

 method . . . 



