ARROWS. 



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No stone arrow or dart heads made by these people have anything 

 like barbs except the square shoulders at the base. They seem never 

 to have attained to the skill in flint-working which 

 enabled many other savages to make the beautiful 

 barbed heads so often seen. To keep the flint-headed 

 arrow from dropping out of the wound they hit upon 

 the contrivance of mounting it not directly in the stele 

 but in a piece of bone upon which barbs could be cut, 

 or, as is not unlikely, having already the deer arrow 

 witli the barbed head of antler, they added the flint 

 head to this, thus combining the penetration of the 

 flint arrow with the holding power of the other. 1 

 was at first inclined to think that this piece of bone 

 bore the same relation to the rest of the arrow as the fore shaft of 

 many Indian arrows, and was to be considered as part of the stele. 

 Considering, however, that its sole function is to furnish the pile with 

 barbs, it evidently must be considered as part of the latter. I shall 

 designate it as &quot;after-pile.&quot; Arrows with this barbed &quot;after-pile &quot; form 



Fro. 185. Heart-s1iai&amp;gt;(&amp;gt;,&amp;lt;l 

 flint pile. 



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Flo. 186 Arrows: (a) Arrow with &quot;after-pile&quot; (ipucirij. adHfi) : (!&amp;gt;) arrow with iron pile (saviilllfi ; 

 (ct arrow with iron pile (savidlln) ; (d) arrow with cop|HT pile (savidllfi) ; {?) deer-arrow (nfitkodHfi). 



the second kind of bear arrows, which arc called ipudll gadllii (&quot;having 

 the ipu dligu&quot; [dr. ipuligak, the similar bone head of a seal lance with 

 iron tip]). After the introduction of iron, metal piles sometimes re 

 placed the flint in arrows of this kind. We collected eight with flint 

 and two with metal piles. No. 727S7 [li. Uj, Fig. L8(ia, has been selected 

 to illustrate this form of arrow. This pile is of gray flint with the tang 

 wedged by a slip of sealskin into the tip of the after-pile, which is 

 cleft to receive it and kept from splitting by a whipping of sinew. 

 The after-pile is fitted into the tip of the stele with a rounded sharp- 

 pointed tang, slightly enlarged just above the tip. It is of reindeer 



