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l\I)l \\s OF THE PLAINS. 



Some curious bows were made from mountain sheep 

 horn backed with sinew, a fine example of which is to 

 be seen in the Xez Perce collection (Fig. 1). The 

 ('row, Hidatsa, and Mandan sometimes used a bow 



Fig. 1. Sinew-backed How and Quiver from the Blackfool and 



Compound Bow of Mountain Sheep Horn from the Xez Perce. 



