. Home mission handicraft; ideas for work and play in mission bands and junior societies. Fig. 184.—^Insert ar-row-head in shaft. Fig. 185.—Arrow-head and shaftbound together. hunt up a piece of wood strongand straight. Cut it three in-ches in length, remove the barkand scrape the wood until it isabout the thickness of an ordi-nary match. Notch one end andsplit the other end down one-quarter of an inch, insert thearrow-head (Fig. 184), then bindthe shaft and head together with thread (Fig. 185), in placeof the wet sinew an Indian would use for a real arrow, afterT he had first fastened the hea


. Home mission handicraft; ideas for work and play in mission bands and junior societies. Fig. 184.—^Insert ar-row-head in shaft. Fig. 185.—Arrow-head and shaftbound together. hunt up a piece of wood strongand straight. Cut it three in-ches in length, remove the barkand scrape the wood until it isabout the thickness of an ordi-nary match. Notch one end andsplit the other end down one-quarter of an inch, insert thearrow-head (Fig. 184), then bindthe shaft and head together with thread (Fig. 185), in placeof the wet sinew an Indian would use for a real arrow, afterT he had first fastened the head in the shaft with glue from buffalo hoofs. Cut three paper feather strips (Fig. .186), each an inch in length, paint black bands on them,bendatdotted line and glue the feathers on the shaft one-quarter of an inch from the notch, allowing them to stand out at angles equally distant from each other (Fig. 187). Bind the Fig. 187. V\ j^ Fig. 186.—Paperfeather for arrow.


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