MURDOCH.) ARROWS ARROW K'KLKASr,. ^O? 



is often r.'iilacod liy ;in ciiipry carrrid.ir.' slidl. wliicli innkr. ;i vn-y - 1 



head. I liavc s.-cii a plialaidii.' Iiaiistixcil al sliui l laii-c li\ ,iiir ol' Ilicsc 

 cartrid.uT licail.Ml airuws. An assoitiiiciit nf tlic dirrnviil kind nf ai-n.ws 

 is usuall\caii-icd in thr i|iiivt'r. Tlir Idl niiiiihricd I'.-), lV,,iii Niiuuk, 



hear arrows, one l)arl)cd hear arrow with a stcrl pile, si\ iii'ar arrows 

 with iron piles, one deer arrow, two fowl aii-ows, and one l)ird ariow. 



As I have already said, all th.'se arrows are tiatten.'d aliove and'l.dow 

 at the nocks. This indicates rliat they were intended to lie held to the 

 striii.nand let -o alter the niannei- of what iscalled the -SaNon release," 

 namely, by liookin,;;- the ends of the index aii.l second lingers louiid lii'e 

 string and indding the arrow between them, the string being ivleased 



by straigliteiiing tlie fingers. Thi.s is tl •elease" whi<-h we actually 



sawemployeil both by the boys and one or two men who showed ns how 

 to draw the bow. Tiiis metlmd of release i,as be.Mi obs.Mved al Cam 

 berland (inlf and at iCast ( 'ape. Siberia, and is probably nnivcrsal 

 among the Eskimo, as all tiie Eskimo airows in the National .Mnsenm 

 are fitted for this release. There is ample material in the IMusenm col- 

 lections for a comparative stndy i>f Eskimo arrows, which [ hope some 

 day to be able to nndertake. wImmi the material is jn a nunv available 

 condition. One or two references to other legions will not. howi'ver. be 

 out of place. The arrow with a barbed bone after-iiile seems a verv 

 geueral form, being represented in the Mnsenm from most of tiie 

 Alaskan regions, as well as from the .Mackenzie. 8coresby mentions 

 finding the head of (me of these at the ancient settlements in east 

 Greenland.^ The. arrow, however, desciibcil by ('apt. I'arry ' has a real 

 foreshaft of bone, not a liarbed after pile. One of these arrows from 

 the ,Macken/,i.- has the after pile barbel on b,>th sides, the onlv instance, 

 1 beli.'ve. in iUv .Mn.s.mm of a bilaterally-baibcl Eskimo arn.w where 

 the i)ile is iH.t wholly of metal. 



Bote cases uikI (lid rcrx. — TIm^ bow and arrows were carried in a l)ow 

 case and (piivcr of black .sealskin, tied to.-ct licr siil.' by side ami slnng 

 across th.' back in the same manner as thi> gun liolstci- alread\- de- 

 scribed. We obtained one case and (|iiivc|- wliich belong with the bow 

 and arrows (No. i'.">, troin Nnwnkjand a single i|uivcr with the bow and 

 arrows (No. I'.'Jf, from Sidarn.) Tlic case. No. s!ii;4.". |i'.".|. I'ig. l!Mi,r 

 (pizT'ksT/.ax), is of snch a shape that the liow can be cairicd in it Strang 



sealskin with the tiesli siijc in ami .sewing np one sid ver and o\ci'" 



from the ontside. The bag is wide cnoiigli— fi inches at the widest 

 [.art— to allow the b.,w to slip in easily when strnng. and the small end 



right Imnil." (Ivuinli.].. Ciiti ilputioii., p. :i7.) 



"BL-imSpaiini'ii winl rhi- I'l.il ni.lit zwis. li.ii Daiinii-n unit Z< 

 MittflttngCTKclialK-li," Krau.-r r.n.nni.s, Oi'L^rajihlsc-liK Uliitli- 



'2(1 Voyage, p. OU, and liyuivil with thi- buw C'l;) uu I'L npixi^ 



