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Another
method of arrow-making practised by the California tribes is mentioned
by Edward E. Chever in an article' in which is illustrated the
implement used in the process. " The arrow-head," he says, " is
held in the left hand, while the nick in the side of the tool is used
as a nipper to chip off small fragments. This operation is very
curious, both the holder and the striker singing, and the strokes of
the mallet, given exactly in time
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with
the music, and with a sharp and rebounding blow, in which, the Indians
tell us, is the great medicine (or mystery) of the operation. Every
tribe has its factory in which these arrow-heads are made, and in those
only certain adepts are able or allowed to make them for the use of the
tribe."
Arrow-heads of glass, flint, obsidian, or similar substances
1 American Naturalist, vol. 4, p. 139, May, 1870.
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