Saxton Pope - Yahi Archery.pdf - Primitiv-bogen.de

PLATE 24Figures 1 to 3 are old Yahi arrows; 4 to 9,the Museum.specimens made while Ishi was atFig. 1. Shaft of hazel, foreshaft of some heavier wood, possibly dogwood.There is a notch for a head, but this is missing. Buzzard wing feathers.Length, 29% inches, weight 320 grains. University of California Museum ofAnthropology, number 1-19577.Fig. 2. The same type as above, feathers a trifle longer. Both are paintedwith alternate red and blue rings and intervening wavy lines. Museum number1-19578.Fig. 3. The shaft is like the preceding, but the point is here preserved.It is a small serrated head of window glass. There is blood on the arrow.Museum number 1-19579.Fig. 4. A one-piece hazel shaft, feathered with turkey feathers, pointedwith an obsidian head. Commercial pigments and shellac embellish this arrow.Number 1-19864.Fig. 5. This is the type of arrow Ishi adopted after living in civilization.It is made of a 6 birch dowel, gayly painted, feathered with blue heron<%feathers and is tipped with a steel head, sinew bound. Number 119863.Fig. 6. This is a dowel turkey tail feathers, blue and red paint rings,obsidian head. An arrow made for show. Number 1-19866.Fig. 7. A longer type of service arrow of Japanese bamboo with shortbirch foreshaft and steel head. Used in early target practice and hunting.Number 1-19862.Fig. 8. A blunt-pointed arrow of native bamboo, buckeye foreshaft, gaycolors, turkey tail feathers. Made for exhibition or gift. Number 1-19456.Fig. 9. Same as last, only it has an obsidian head. Length 38 inches, weight580 grains. Number 1-19454. Similar shafts Ishi made and gave to SecretaryLane at a ceremonial occasion in San Francisco in 1914.[136]