. Bulletin. Ethnology. 114 SOUTH AMERICAN INDIANS [B. A. E. Boll. 143 from about 3 to 9 feet ( to m.) ; section ovate rounded with apex toward cord; of Nothofagus antarctica, fluted; string of twisted guanaco sinew. Arrow: head, triangular, stemmed, and barbed, of stone, bone, or glass; fitted into socket in shaft and lashed with sinew; no foreshaft; feathering, two half-feathers lashed radially to shaft with spirally wound sinew or gut. Quiver: oblong, sewn skin. Ar- row shafts were smoothed with a grooved stone rubber and given final polish with leaves or wood and stone dust on a bit
. Bulletin. Ethnology. 114 SOUTH AMERICAN INDIANS [B. A. E. Boll. 143 from about 3 to 9 feet ( to m.) ; section ovate rounded with apex toward cord; of Nothofagus antarctica, fluted; string of twisted guanaco sinew. Arrow: head, triangular, stemmed, and barbed, of stone, bone, or glass; fitted into socket in shaft and lashed with sinew; no foreshaft; feathering, two half-feathers lashed radially to shaft with spirally wound sinew or gut. Quiver: oblong, sewn skin. Ar- row shafts were smoothed with a grooved stone rubber and given final polish with leaves or wood and stone dust on a bit of f oxskin. Arrow- heads were chipped by pressure with a blunt rounded bone tool. Bows were made by specialists, who received some remuneration; arrows, by nearly every man. Ona children plaj^ed with small bows and arrows. "^^. Figure 17.—Ona bow and arrow. (Leiij,'ib ui anuw 32 in., or 80 cm.; of bow, 631^ in., or 158 cm.) (After Lothrop, 1928, pi. 5.) the latter often blunt-headed. The bow was held diagonally in shoot- ing, with primar}'' release, or, if far shooting was desired, with sec- ondary or tertiary. No poison was used on arrow points, A short spear, about 5 feet ( m.) with a unilaterally barbed bone shank, was used for hunting and fishing. Slings were sometimes used by the &outliern Ona. Spherical stone artifacts that may have been bolas balls have been found in Ona territory, and the bolas has been ascribed to the Ona within the last 50 years by an occasional writer (Spears, 1895, p. 59; Beauvoir, 1915, pp. 203-204), but practi- cally all of our first-hand sources on Ona culture are silent regarding the bolas. Clubs were apparently used only rarely, in hunting. The atlatl was absent. Tools.—The stone celt or ax was apparently lacking; we have neither ethnological nor archeological evidence of its Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and app
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