ows occur in materials of whose source we know nothing. Arrows have been divided into war points and hunting points, the formerinserted into the shaft so loosely that when the shaft was pulled out the headwould remain in the wound; such a wound would be very serious in Indiansurgery. While those… … blow tube made of a hollow reed. Iu such cases the point wasprobably poisoned. Venomous serpents were made to bite rawflesh, and when this had become partly putrescent the arrowswere thrust into it and made highly poisonous. Fig. 55 shows these minutepoints from this valley. Fig. 56 shows eight war…
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