..Arrows, Bows, and Quivers. The bow 
and arrow was the most useful and uni- 
versal weapon and implement of the 
chase possessed by the Indians n. of 
Mexico for striking or piercing distant 
objects. 
Arrows. — A complete Indian arrow is 
made up of six parts -.Head, shaft, foreshaft, 
shaftment, feathering, and nock. These 
differ in material, form, measurement, 
decoration, and assemblage, according to 
individuals, locality, and tribe. Arrow- 
heads have three parts: Body, tang, and 
barbs. There are two kinds of arrow- 
heads, the blunt and the sharp. Blunt 
heads are for stunning, being top-shaped. 
The Ute, Paiute, and others tied short 
sticks crosswise on the end of the shafts 
of boys’ arrows for killing birds. Sharp 
TYPES OF ARROWHEADS 
arrowheads are of two classes, the lance- 
olate, which can be withdrawn, and the 
-sagittate, intended for holding game or 
for rankling in the wound. The former 
are used on hunting, the latter on war or 
retrieving arrows. In the S. W. a sharp- 
ened foreshaft of hard wood serves for the 
head. Arctic and N. W. coast arrows 
have heads of ivory, bone, wood, or cop- 
per, as well as of stone; elsewhere they are 
more generally of stone, chipped or pol- 
ished. Many of the arrowheads from 
those two areas are either two-pronged, 
three-pronged, or harpoon-shaped. The 
head is attached to the shaft or foreshaft by 
lashing with sinew, by riveting, or with 
gum. Among the Eskimo the barbed 
head of bone is stuck loosely into a socket 
on the shaft, so that this will come out 
and the head rankle in the wound. The 
barbs of the ordinary chipped head are 
usually ai ike on both sides, but in the 
long examples from ivory, bone, or wood 
the barbing is either bilateral or uni- 
lateral, one-barbed or many-barbed, alike 
on the two sides or different. In addition 
to their use in hunting and in war, arrows 
are commonly used in games and cere- 
monies. Among certain Hopi priesthoods 
arrowheads are tied to bandoleers as or- 
naments, and among the Zuni they are 
frequently attached to fetishes. 
Arrowshafts of the simplest kind are 
reeds, canes, or stems of wood. In the 
Arctic region they are made of driftwood 
or are bits of bone lashed together, and 
are rather short, owing to the scarcity of 
material. The foreshaft is a piece of 
ivory, bone, or heavy wood. Among the 
Eskimo foreshafts are of bone or ivory on 
wooden shafts; in California, of hard 
wood on shafts of pithy or other light 
wood; from California across the conti- 
nent to Florida, of hard wood on cane 
