The boy craftsman; practical ad profitable ideas for a boy's leisure hours . up annu-ally in the mountains and on the plains, which were oncethe battle-fields and hunting-grounds of the redmen, andin excavating for building purposes they are frequentlyfound. A few specimens of stone heads showing avariety of the shapes and sizes used will be found inFig. 249. The preparation of these heads was usuallyleft to the old men who were unfit for any otherwork. 242 OUTDOOR PASTIMES In making the flint head, the Indian made a loop ina piece of buckskin which had been thoroughly wet incold water, and th
The boy craftsman; practical ad profitable ideas for a boy's leisure hours . up annu-ally in the mountains and on the plains, which were oncethe battle-fields and hunting-grounds of the redmen, andin excavating for building purposes they are frequentlyfound. A few specimens of stone heads showing avariety of the shapes and sizes used will be found inFig. 249. The preparation of these heads was usuallyleft to the old men who were unfit for any otherwork. 242 OUTDOOR PASTIMES In making the flint head, the Indian made a loop ina piece of buckskin which had been thoroughly wet incold water, and then taking a piece of flint, heated it,and with the strip of buckskin chipped off what was notwanted until the head was of the correct shape and hornstone is more brittle than quartz, the headsmade from that material were broken and shaped bystriking them against the latter. The stone heads wereattached to the shaft by means of sinews, generallyfrom deer. For hunting small birds, the Indians oftenmade wooden arrow-heads, hardening the wood by fireafter shaping CHAPTER XVIII AN OUTDOOR GYMNASIUM
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