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E. — Projectile weapons. 



Boivs and arrows, arroiv -heads, and quivers. — At present, they are used 

 only as playthings for children, and are very poor ; bat formerly they 

 were very common. The bows were about three feet long, and were 

 made of yew-wood ; the strings of sinew, or the intestines of raccoons. 

 The arrows were about two and one-half feet long, were made of cedar, 

 with feathered shafts, and points of stone, and of nails after they ob- 

 tained them ', and the quiver of wolfskin. Arrow-heads are sometimes 

 made of brass or iron, two or three inches long, half an inch wide, and 

 very thin, and of very hard wood, five inches long, and round. Some- 

 times, for birds, they are made of ironwood, about five inches long, 

 with two prongs, one of them being half an inch shorter than the other. 



Firearms and outfit. — Eifles and muskets are very common, the men 

 often owning several. Their shot-pouch is made either of cloth or 

 leather, and their powder carried either in the flask or horn. A very 

 common sheath for the gun is made of a piece of a blanket, sewed so 

 that the gun will fit into it. 



Poison for missiles. — None, as far as I can learn, has been used. 

 Formerly, they sometimes burned their spear-points a little, both before 

 and after wounding an enemy, superstitiously thinking it would hurt 

 worse, or poison that into which it had been or would be thrust. 



F. — Defensive weapons. 



Parrying-sticJcs, shields, helmets, visors, mail, greaves, fetters, snares, pit- 

 falls, stockades, earthivorlcs, and other fortifications. — ISTone are in use 

 now, nor do I learn that they ever were, in w^ar. In hunting, they 

 formerly sometimes used pitfalls, and also made stockades of sticks in 

 the form of a V, at the small end of which was a net made of string. 

 The deer being driven into the V would attempt to escape, but not see- 

 ing the net, would catch his horns in it, and then was killed. The string 

 for the net was made of nettlestaik fiber twisted. 



G. — Besieging and assaulting contrivances. 



The only one of which 1 learn has been described in B of the present 

 section, " Fire-pots." 



H. — Armories. 

 They had none. 



I. — Trophies and standards. 



Scal2)s and the Wee ; tomahawlcs of ceremony and other standards - 

 trophies erected to commemorate victories. — As far as 1 can learn, none 

 of these have ever been in use. 



Skulls. — The heads of the enemy were formerly brought home as em 

 blems of triumph. 



