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TRANS^ACTIONS OF THE CANADIAN INSTITUTK. 



[Vol. TV. 



mentioning them here is to show that the faculty of self appropriation 

 and adaptiveness which more particularly characterizes the Carrier mind, 



Fig- Si- 

 is, to some extent, shared in even by the Tse'kehne tribe which to this 

 day has little reason to boast of its material progress. 



A detail which it may also be worth noting is the mode of holding the 

 bow while shooting. The Carriers, who almost invariably knelt while 

 shooting, held it in a horizontal position, while the Tse'kehne used it 

 perpendicularly, one end of the weapon resting on the ground. 



To return to stone implements. Besides the arms already described 

 the Western Den^s had recourse, when on the offensive, to five other 

 varieties of weapons ; the spear, the dagger, the war club, the temple- 

 lancet or skull- cracker, and what might be termed the counterpart of the 

 modern bayonet. 



This latter arm was called djtJii'-la-din'ai'^ which may be freely 

 translated " fixed at the end of the bow." Its name explains its nature. 

 It was brought into requisition by the warrior or the hunter when too 

 closely pressed by the enemy to shoot, and was used as a spear. Such 

 points were of identical material with that of arrow-heads, a, b and c, fig. 

 23, and were chipped to the shape of figs. 34 and 35. The latter point 

 is rather ruder in appearance than the average bow-points. Indeed from 



•Lit. " bow-end-appended to ; " plural, slthi-la-dinla, ^\qx\>z\ \-\omx\. 



