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Guide to the museum, first floor (1922)

Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation · New York : Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation · leaf 38

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32 GUIDE important part, as did also, among the more northerly tribes of the area; the gathering of wild rice and maple-sugar. The favorite hunting weapons were the … Central Algonkians bow and arrow, although it is said that in Bows early times short-shafted spears were used Arrows 130 F in hunting bears, as well as in war. The bow was typical of the Eastern Woodlands, being four to five feet long, with a flat INDIAN NOTES

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