HARPOON-HEADS. 



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provided with incisions or grooves, supposed by some to have served for the 

 reception of poison, an opinion which I hardly can share, in consideration of the 

 fact that the arrow-shafts of many Indian tribes, such as the Sioux, Cheyennes, 



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Fia. 11. La Madelaiue. FIG. 12. Bruuiquel. Fio. 13. La Madelaine. FIG. 14. La Madelaine. FIG. 15. La Madelaine. 



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FIGS. 11-15. Harpoon-heads of reindeer-horn. 



Tonkaways, Navajos, Pai-Utes, and others, exhibit longitudinal grooves, intended 

 to facilitate the flow of the wounded animal's blood.* There are three of these 

 grooves, cut in at equal distances, and usually forming irregular wave lines, as 

 shown in Fig. 16 which represents an iron-headed Sioux arrow. Of course, only 

 one of the grooves is visible in the figure. 



FIG. 16. Irou-headed Sioux arrow. 



* They remind one of tlie blood-grooves (Blutrinnen) on Toledo and other sword-blades. 

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