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in plate 10, b ; one leaning against the house in plate 1 1 ; one by the 

 child in plate 12; those in plates 17, a, b, 18, 19, a). Powell 7 said of 

 Kaibab bows, "Most of their bows are made of cedar, but the best 

 are made of the horns of mountain sheep. These are taken, soaked 

 in water, until quite soft, cut into long thin strips, and glued together, 

 and are then quite elastic." 



Quivers. — Quivers are represented in several photographs, some 

 of which, if correctly posed, show the manner of carrying them. The 

 fur quiver of the Moapa (pi. i, b) was slung over the right shoulder 

 and under the left arm, so that the arrow had to be pulled over the 

 right shoulder. The Moapa fur quivers in plate 2, a, b, were hung 

 across the chest, or, more accurately, around the neck with the 

 openings to the right. 



A fur Kaibab quiver is shown on the ground in plate 22, c. 



A Uintah Ute quiver (pi. 29, a, b) has a bow case attached. A 

 flap, ornamented with a striped border, symmetrical floral designs 

 and metal studs, hangs from it. 



Shooting. — Though posed, the Las Vegas man (pi. 5, a) and the 

 Kaibab man (pi. 18, a) probably hold their bows in accordance with 

 native usage, for this slanting position was common throughout the 

 area. 



Clubs. — A Moapa club of the "potato masher" type, similar to that 

 used by the Colorado River tribes, appears in plate 2, c. 



Knives. — Several hafted flint knives are shown in the photographs. 

 Though these cannot be studied in detail, even with the aid of a 

 glass, all appear to be essentially the same. A chipped flint blade is 

 fitted into the end of a short wooden handle, which is wrapped just 

 below the blade. Two knives appear on the ground near the right 

 end of the bow in the left foreground of the Las Vegas picture, plate 

 4, a. Several similar knives lie on the ground in the Kaibab photo- 

 graph, plate 10, a. The Kaibab man in plate 9, b. is retouching the 

 blade of a knife. He holds it on a pad in his left hand and works 

 with a flaker held in his right hand. The last photograph has also 

 been reproduced and described in Bureau of American Ethnology 

 Bulletin 60, figure 175 and page 309 ff. 



Rodent hook. — Shoshonean tribes commonly used long sticks with 

 either hooked or slightly forked ends which they inserted into rodent 

 burrows and twisted in the fur of the animals so as to pull them out. 

 Each of the two sticks held in the hand of the Las Vegas man in 

 plate 5, c, is equipped with a short hook at one end and may have 



7 Op. cit., p. 128. 



