. Bulletin. Ethnology. Ivory Arrowshafi ener; Eskimo. 3 IN.) USE OF ARROWSHAFT STRAIQHTENER; SHOSHONI (elLIOTt) painted with stripes for identification. The Plains Indians and the Jicarillas cut shallow grooves lengthwise down their arrowshafts, called "lightning marks," or " blood grooves," and also are said by Indians to keep the shaft from warping (Fletcher) or to direct the fiight. The feathering is an important feature in the Indian arrowy differing in the species of birds, the kind and number of feathers and in their form, length, and manner of setting. As to the numb
. Bulletin. Ethnology. Ivory Arrowshafi ener; Eskimo. 3 IN.) USE OF ARROWSHAFT STRAIQHTENER; SHOSHONI (elLIOTt) painted with stripes for identification. The Plains Indians and the Jicarillas cut shallow grooves lengthwise down their arrowshafts, called "lightning marks," or " blood grooves," and also are said by Indians to keep the shaft from warping (Fletcher) or to direct the fiight. The feathering is an important feature in the Indian arrowy differing in the species of birds, the kind and number of feathers and in their form, length, and manner of setting. As to the number of feathers, arrows are either without feathering, two-feathered, or three-feathered. As'to form, feathers are whole, as among most of the Eskimo and some S. W. tribes, or halved or notched on the edges. In length they vary from the very short feathering on S. W. arrows, with long reed shafts and heavy fore- shafts, to the long feath- ering on Plains arrows, with their short shafts of hard wood. The feath- ers are set on the shaft- ment either flat or radi- ating; the ends are lashed with sinew, straight or doubled under, and the middles are either free or glued down. In some arrows there is a slight rifling, due perhaps to the twist needed to make a tight fit, though it is not said that this feature is intentional. The nocks of arrows, the part containing the notch for the string, are, in the Arctic, fiat; in the S., where reed shafts were employed, cylindrical; and in localities where the shafts were cut, bulbous. Besides its use as a piercing. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology. Washington : G. P. O.
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