MURDOCH.) 



QUIVERS. 



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inch beyond the mouth, where it is secured by a bit of thong knotted 

 through a couple of small holes in the bag close to the edge and pass 

 ing round a notch on the stick. The stick serves to stiffen the quiver 

 when there are no arrows in it. A bit of thong is knotted round the 

 middle, one end being hitched into a loop on the other, 

 for tightening up the quiver and confining the arrows. 



The quiver from Sidaru (No. 72788 [234] Fig. 190&amp;lt;;) is 

 like the preceding, but larger at the bottom than at the 

 mouth. The latter is 8i inches in circumference and the 

 former 12, and the seam is left open for about 7 inches 

 from the mouth to facilitate getting at the arrows. The 

 stiffening rod is made of pine, and does not project through 

 the bottom or reach the edge of the mouth. It is held in 

 by two pieces of thong about 10 inches long, which also 

 serve to fasten it to the bow case. This quiver is nearly 

 new. 



It is probable that the form of the bow case and quiver 

 varied but little, among the American Eskimo at least. 

 Those figured by Capt. Lyoii 1 are almost exactly like the 

 ones AVC collected at 

 Point Barrow, even 

 to the crimped cap 

 on the bottom of the 

 quiver. A similar set 

 belong with a lad s 



bow in the Museum FIG. 192.-Cap for quiver rod. 



from Point Hope (No. 03611). Nordenskiold, however, 

 figures a very elaborate flat quiver, 2 in use at Pitlekaj, 

 which is evidently of genuine Asiatic origin. 



Some pains seem to have been bestowed on ornament 

 ing the quiver in former times, when the bow was in more 

 general use. Fig. 191, No. 5(5505 [231 ], from Nuwftk, rep 

 resents what we understood had been a stiffening rod for 

 a quiver or bow case. It is of reindeer antler, 17 inches 

 long, and one end is very neatly carved into the head and 

 shoulders of a reindeer, with small, blue glass beads in 

 serted for the eyes. The lanceolate point at the tip was 

 probably made with an idea of improving it for sale. The 

 hole at the back of the neck is for a thong to fasten it on 

 with. A similar reindeer head of antler, Fig. 192, No. 

 89449 [1006], also from Nuwiik, seems to have been a cap for a quiver 

 stick. The back of the neck makes a half-ferrule, iii which are three 

 holes for rivets or treenails. 

 Bracers. In shooting the bow, the wrist of the bow hand was pro- 





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FIG. 191 Quiver 

 rod. 



9 ETH- 



1 Parry s 2d Voyage, PI. opposite p. 550, Fig. 24. 

 2 Vega, vol. 2. p. 106. 



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