. Bulletin. Ethnology. 314 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [BULL. 60 Mr. B. B. Redding has observed and recorded in gratifying detail the method of arrow making among the Wintoons of Wintoons: Cloiid Kiver, Oreg. Three processes and three types Redding's Obser- p ^ • -i , • i -> r>n "/\ nations of sha])ing implements are mvolved, as tollo\Ys: («) Making flakes with hammer and pnnch;^ (h) shap- ing the blades b,y free-hand pressure with a large bone flaker; (c) breaking out notches with rocking pressure of a small flaker. The demonstration was made by an old man named Consohiln who— bro
. Bulletin. Ethnology. 314 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [BULL. 60 Mr. B. B. Redding has observed and recorded in gratifying detail the method of arrow making among the Wintoons of Wintoons: Cloiid Kiver, Oreg. Three processes and three types Redding's Obser- p ^ • -i , • i -> r>n "/\ nations of sha])ing implements are mvolved, as tollo\Ys: («) Making flakes with hammer and pnnch;^ (h) shap- ing the blades b,y free-hand pressure with a large bone flaker; (c) breaking out notches with rocking pressure of a small flaker. The demonstration was made by an old man named Consohiln who— broii;j:ht, tied up in a deerskin, a piece of obsidian ;' al>oiit a pound, a fragment of a deerliorn split from a iironji: lengthwise, al)out 4 inches in length and half an inch in diameter, and ground off squarely at the ends—this left each end a semicircle, besides two deer prongs (Caridciis rolinitlniniux) wi(h the points ground down into the shape of a square, sharp-jiointed file, one of these being much smaller than the other. He had also some pieces of iron wire tied to wooden handles and ground into the same shapes. These, he ex- plained, he used in pref- erence to the deer prongs, since white men came to the country, because they were harder and did not requir e sharpening so frequently. The first step w^as to strike otf flakes from the obsidian block by percussion, using a hammerstone and a piece of deerhorn. This part of the demonstration has already been given under indirect percussion. Having obtained a suitable flake, the worlanan proceeded to shape the arroAvhead. He now squatted on the ground, sitting on his left foot, his right leg extended in a position often assumed by tailors at work. He then placed in the palm of his left hand a piece of thick, well-tanned buckskin, evidently from the skin of the neck of a deer. It was tlii<'k but soft and pliable. On this he laid the flake of obsidian, which he hekl firndy in its place by the first thr
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