THE INDIANS OF CALIFORNIA. 139 
removing their share as fast as called for. No complaint 
was made if some were sharers who had not been workers, 
and hospitality to those entering their lodges was universal. 
The Indians hunt for one kind of game only at a time, 
and each kind when they can be taken most advantageously. 
Fig. 36. 
a The bow unstrung, from the Museum of the Peabody Academy. 
b Arrow with head of obsidian, from the same. 
When I saw every kind of game represented together at 
the Indian encampment in Bierstadt’s celebrated painting 
of the Yosemite, I knew the camp had been introduced for 
effect, from this evident ignorance of, or disregard for the 
habits of Indians. 
The Indian bow (Fig. 36) is made of the tough mountain 
cedar, with a thick back of sinew. A string of sinew also 
enables him to draw an arrow nearly to its head before it is 
sent humming through the air. The arrows are of two 
kinds, those with a head of hard, pointed wood for common 
use and those (Fig. 365) reserved Fig. 37. 
for extreme cases of attack or 
defence, having points of agate 
or obsidian, which are carefully 
kept in the skin of a fox, wild 
cat or otter. The stone arrow- 
heads (Fig. 37) are made with 
great care, and the materials 
from which they are made are 
often brought from long dis- b a 
EUM & Arrow-head of obsidian, from the Mu- 
tances. Obsidian and agate are ,,, EET Academy. a, 
probably selected not so much “Section or the 
for beauty of coloring as for their close grain, which admits 
of more careful shaping. They use a tool with its working 
edge shaped like the side of a glazier’s diamond. The 
