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To make the notch of his arrowe, he hath the tooth of a bever sett in a stick, 

 wherewith he grateth yt by degrees ; his arrowe hedd he quickly maketh with a 

 litle bone (which he ever weareth at liis bracer and which bracer is commonly 

 of some beast's skynne, eyther of the woolf, badger, or black fox, etc.) of any 

 splint of a stone, or peece of a deare's bone, of an oyster shell, or of a cristall, in 

 the form of a heart, barb'd and jagged, and these they glue to the end of their 

 arrowes witii the synewes of deare and the topps of deare's home boyled into a 

 jelly, of which they make a glue that will not dissolve in cold water, (Strachey, 

 1849, p. 106.) 



And now Beverley : 



They made their Arrows of Reeds or small Wands, which needed no other 

 cutting, but in the length, being otherwise ready for Notching, Feathering and 

 Heading. They fledged their Arrows with Turkey Feathers, which they fastened 

 with Glue made of the Velvet Horns of a Deer, but it has not that quality it's said 

 to have, of holding against all Weathers; they arm'd the Heads with a white 

 transparent Stone, like that of Mexico mentioned by Peter Martyr, of which they 

 have many Rocks; they also headed them with the Spurs of the Wild Turkey 

 Cock. (Beverley, 1705, bk. 3, p. 60) 



Writing in 1728, Byrd states that the Indians of his acquaintance, 

 meaning probably the Nottoway, used formerly to point their arrows 

 with the spurs of turkey cocks, "tho' now they point them with a 

 Sharp Stone" (Bassett, 1909, p. 150), which looks like a reversion, 

 but may probably be explained by the decrease in wild turkeys. 



Lawson : 



Arrowwood growing on the [sand] banks is used by the Indians [of the Piedmont 

 tribes] for arrows and gun stocks. It grows as straight as if plained, and 

 is of all sizes. This is as tough and pliable as the smallest canes. (Lawson 

 1860, p. 167. ) 



Catesby : 



Their arrows were reeds headed with pieces of stone, spurs of turkey-cocks, 

 and the bones of fish. (Catesby, 1731-43, vol. 2, p. ix.) 



Cherokee arrows were pointed as follows : 



Cutting a bit of thin brass, copper, bone, or scales of a particular fish, into 

 a point with two beards, or some into an acute triangle, they split a little of 

 their arrow, which is generally of reeds; into this they put the point, wind- 

 ing some deers sinew round the arrow, and through a little hole they make 

 in the head ; then they moisten the sinew with their spittle, which, when dry, 

 remains fast glewed, or ever untwists. (Timberlake, Williams ed., 1927, p. 85.) 



Adair : 



They make perhaps the finest bows, and the smoothest barbed arrows, of 

 all mankind. On the point of them is fixed either a scooped point of buck- 

 horn, or turkey-cock spurs, pieces of brass, or flint-stone. (Adair, 1775, p. 456- 

 457.) 



Speck has a rather detailed account of Yuchi arrows which adds 

 important details: 



Arrows, la cu', for hunting are made of the straight twigs of arrow-wood 

 or of cane stalks of the proper thickness. In the former case it was only neces- 



