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No stoiio arrow I ir dart lic;i(ls made by ilicsc iicdplc h; 

 like barbs except tlie siiuare slumlders at lli.' lias( . Tlie, 

 to have attained to tlie skill in Hint-workin.i; wlii.-li 

 enabled many otlier savages to make the lieautiriM .- 

 barbed heads so often seen. To keep the Hint !iea(h'(l ^ 

 arrow ft-oni droppin.ii out of the woun<l tliey hit npon 

 the contrivance of nionntin.i;- it not directly in the stele 

 bnt in a pieceof bone iijion which barbs could he cut. , 

 or, as is not unlikely, having; already tlie deer arrow 

 with the barbed head of antler, they added the timt 

 head to tliis, thus condiiniu-- the peuctiation of the 

 tliut arrow with the holdin,;; power of the oilier. 1 ,.,„, ,«•, ^h,..,,., «i,. 

 was at first inclined to think that this iiiece of bdue ti.ni Imi,/"'''""' 



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

 many Indiau arrows, and was to be cuiisideied as i>art of the stele. 

 (Jousideriuf-', however, that its sole function is to furnish the pile with 

 barbs, it evidently must lie considered as part of the latbM'. I shall 

 designate it as ••after-iiile.'' Arrows with this barbed '•after-pile" form 



Fio. lS6.-Anow3: (a) Annw witli -afli- 

 (cl :iiT(iw Willi iriiii \>\\k (saviclUu) ; (J) an 



h) urn.w -n-itl. iron pit.- (saviilliD; 

 .i.lllfil; (.XlnT-arn.M (nutl.,.,llin). 



(1 iimdli'-adlii-i ("havin- 



the secoiiil kiiul of bear arrows, winch a: 



iron tiii|). Alter the iiitiodiiclioii of iimi. metal piles soiuetimes le- 

 placcd the Hint in arrows of this kind. We collected eiolit with fiuit 

 and two with metal [.iles. No. IL'TST [L'.lb/j. Fi.i;. 1S(;«, has been select e<l 

 to illustrate this form of arrow. This pile is of -i-ay flint \\itli the tan- 

 wed-'cd by a slip of sealskin into the tip of the after-pile, which is 

 cleft to receive it and kept from siilittiii-- by a whippin- of sinew. 

 The after pile is titled into the ti). of the stele with a nuiiiiicd sharp- 

 pointed tan-, sli-htly enlarged just above tiie tip. It is of reindeer 



