504 The Book of Woodcraft ARCHERY a. The bow strung, b. The cord fast at the lower end. c. The cord with loop at upper end. d. Feather ready to tie on. e. Feathers lashed on. £. Holding. jt^^ •"mr %Tra^^7^;iTlllf -jBS^^F^Ss aaumiMM : II I liMi.ll., u 3
SIX SAMPLE ARROWS, SHOWING DIFFERENT FEATHERS. ^ is a far-flying steel-pointed bobtail, very pood in wind. B is another very good ar- row, with a horn point. This went even better than A if there were no wind. C is an Omaha war and deer arrow. Both heads and fiathers are lashed on with sinew. The long tufts of down left on the feathers are to hflp in fiiding it again, as they are snow-white and wave in the breeze. Th? grooves on the shaft are to make the victim bleed more freely and be more easily tracked. D is another Omaha arruw with a pccul-ar owner's mark of rings carved in the middle. £ is a bone-headed I ird shaft made by the Indians of the Macken- zie River. /^ is a war arrow made by Geronimo, the famous Apache chief. Its shaft is three joints of a straight cane. The tip is of hard wood, and on that is a fine quartz point: all being lashed together with sinew.
