MURDOCH.) QUIVERS. 209 
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 init. <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. 190c) is 
like the preceding, but larger at the bottom than at the 
mouth. The latter is 84 inches in circumference and the 
former 123, and the seam is left open for about 74 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. Lyon! are almost pel like the 
ones we 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 Fic, 192.—Cap for quiver rod. 
from Point Hope (No. 63611). Nordenskidld, however, 
figures a very elaborate flat quiver,’ 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. 56505 [231], from Nuwitk, 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 
Fig. 191.—Quiver hole at the back of the neck is for a thong to fasten it on 
oil: with. <A similar reindeer head of antler, Fig. 192, No. 
89449 [1066], also from Nuwiik, seems to have been a cap for a quiver 
stick. The back of the neck makes a half-ferrule, in which are three 
holes for rivets or treenails. 
Bracers.—In shooting the ay the wrist of the bow hand was pro- 
Parry's 2d Voyage, Pl. praia p. 550, Fig. 24. 
2Vega, vol. 2, p. 106. 
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