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headed snow-shoe, without cross-bars, and iniich inferior to the snow- 
shoe used by Indians farther north, was much in vogue for winter 
travel; the coast Indians, of course, were ignorant of its use. 
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liitorior Salisli girl, ^VL'aring a featlier liead- 
(Itoss and a l?!ankot wovoii from the wool 
of the wild Tiiountain goat. (Photo hy 
James Teit.) 
While the weapons and armour of the Interior Salish corre- 
sponded broadly with those that prevailed throughout the rest of 
the province, many warriors carried in adtlition small round shields 
similar to the shields of the plains’ tribes,^ and poisoned their arrow- 
heads with the flower of the ranunculus or with virus from the rattle- 
1 Simon Fraser saw a different type of shield aniont: Ihe lalloet : "It was Large enougli to cover 
the whole body, composed of splinters of wood like the ribs of stays and neatly enclosed with twine 
made of hemp." Journal of Simon Fraser; in Masson, i, p. 179. 
