Contents for "Yahi Archery", by Saxton T. Pope. An article on how Ishi, the last Yana indian, practiced archery: how he made his bow, his arrows, flaked arrow points, his method of shooting, how he hunted, etc.

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Yahi Archery

by Saxton T. Pope

University of California Publications in
American Archaelogy and Ethnology

Vol. 13, No. 3, pp. 103-152, plates 21-37, March 6, 1918

Contents

Technical terms

Manufacture of arrow points

Handling the bow

Ishi's records with the bow

Hunting methods

Explanation of plates