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Title: Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution
Identifier: annualreportofb1890smit (find matches)
Year: 1846 (1840s)
Authors: Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents; United States National Museum. Report of the U. S. National Museum; Smithsonian Institution. Report of the Secretary
Subjects: Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science
Publisher: Washington : Smithsonian Institution
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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468 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1890, rocious brutes are fearlessly attacked with such inferior weapons as the bows and arrows represented in Fig. 84. One bow in this figure was obtained from an old man at Shari, who, in a most dramatic manner, illus- trated the manner of shooting bears. The bow is strung by taking the free endof the string between the teeth and drawing up the slack while the hands are employed in bending the wood. The best bows are made of the wood of Taxus cuspidata. The arrows are made in dif- ferent ways. Some of them are plain, straight shafts, with iron heads and feathered ends. Not long since, stone heads were in use, but now Japanese iron is hammered into heavy barbed poiuts. Since the in- troduction of knives, bamboo heads have been adopted. By so cutting the bamboo that the hard cortex of the stem forms the point and edge, very ex- cellent arrow-heads are made. I have seen an arrow head of this kind driven from a bow into a board with great force without noticeable injury to the point. The shaft is usually made in two sections. The notched end is usually a length of reed (Phragmites) or of scrub bamboo, at the lower end of which the feathers are tied with fine bark fiber. This is joined to a somewhat shorter length of wood, the upper part of which tapers, and is inserted into the base of the bamboo or bone head. Such jointed ar- rows are shown in Fig. 84. The heads are secured with resin and bindings of bark, but they are easily detached.
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rip. si. Bows, Arrows, and Quiver.

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