Notes
| 1. | These two subjects as developed by the American aborigines will be treated subsequently. Shields and armor will be described by Mr. Walter Hough. |
| 2. | Henry Balfour, Jour. Anthrop. Inst., London, vol. xix |
| 3. | It is worthy of note, that etymologically "cannon," is a derivative from the Greek  —a reed. |
| 4. | Consult Henry Balfour. "The Structure and Affinity of the Composite Bow," J. Anthrop Inst., Lond., XIX; John Murdoch, A study of the Eskimo bows in the U.S. National Museum, Smithson. Rep., 1884, pt. II; D. N. Anuchin, Bows and Arrows, Trans. Tiflis Archaeol. Congress, Moscow, 1887; Lane Fox, Catalogue. |
| 5. | Burton would claim this honor for the sword. |
| 6. | Capt. J. G. Bourke, letter. |
| 7. | Smithsonian Report, 1863, p. 362. |
| 8. | Am. Anthrop., Washington, 1892, vol. v, p. 360. |
| 9. | Whipple, etc., Pac. R. R. Rep., vol. III, p. 32, pl. 41, bow and quiver. |
| 10. | G. Bourke, letter. Also J. G. Morice, Trans. Can. Inst., iv, 58. |
| 11. | Timberlake, quoted by Jones, So. Indians, p. 252. |
| 12. | The Pawnee Indians, J. B. Dunbar. |
| 13. | Maximilian's Travels, p. 257. |
| 14. | cf. Franz Boas, The Central Eskimo, Rep. Bur. Ethnol., vol. vi, pp. 502,503. SM 93———41 |
| 15. | Report of U. S. National Museum, 1884, p. 307-316. Plates I-XII. |
| 16. | Jones, So. Indians, 252. |
| 17. | Powers, Cont. to N. A. Ethnol., vol. III, p. 152. |
| 18. | Science, vol. VIII, p. 528. |
| 19. | For the contest between bow and musket, in 1792, at Pacton Green, Cumberland, and also at Chalk Farm, at 100 yards, see Hansard, vol. ix, p. xiii. |
| 20. | Capt. J. G. Bourke, letter. |
| 21. | Hansard, p. 26. |
| 22. | Schoolcraft, S. Rp., vol. III, p. 81. |
| 23. | See W. H. Holmes, Am. Anthropologist, vols. v., vi.; J. C. McGuire, id., vol. v.; H. C. Mercer, Pop. Sc. Month. |
| 24. | Murdoch, ix, An. Rep. Bur. Ethnol., pp. 288,289. |
| 25. | See Holmes, Am. Anthropologist, vols, v and vi. |
| 26. | Eng. Scholar’s Library. Capt. J. Smith's works, No. 16, p. 68. SM93------42 |
| 27. | Franz Boas. The Central Eskimo, vi Rep. Bur. Ethnol., pp. 504-508. |
| 28. | Coville, Am. Anthrop., 1892, vol. v, p. 360. |
| 29. | H. G. Dulog, in Forest and Stream. |
| 30. | See Smithsonian Report, 1886. |
| 31. | Cf. Timberlake, quoted by Jones, So. Indians, 251; Lawson, 252. |
| 32. | Boas., vi, An. Rep. Bur. Ethnol., Washington, 526. |
| 33. | On the plane of the head cf. Hansard, 212. |
| 34. | American Naturalist, vol. iv, p. 61. |
| 35. | Am. Naturalist, 1878, p. 595. |
| 36. | American Anthropologist, iv, 61. |
| 37. | J. G. Bourke, letter. |
| 38. | Am. Nat., vol. xxi, p. 784. |
| 39. | For Southern Indians, see Jones, p. 248. |
| 40. | See Bancroft, Native Races, I., 79. |
| 41. | F. Boas, The Central Eskimo, vi Bep. Bur. Ethnol., p. 508. |
| 42. | Maximilian, Travels, etc., 257. |
| 43. | Powers, Cont. to N. A. Ethnol., vol. III, p. 48 |
| 44. | Baegert, Jacob, Aboriginal Inhabitants of Californian Peninsula, Sm. Rep., 1863, p. 362. |
| 45. | Pike's Expedition, Phila., 1810, 10, Appendix to Part III. |
| 46. | J. G. Bourke, letter. |
| 47. | Capt. J. G. Bourke, letter. |
| 48. | George Catlin, Last Rambles, pp. 187 to 190, in Smithsonian Report, 1885, p. 743. |
| 49. | T. G. B. Lloyd, J. Anthrop. Inst., vol. IV, p. 28. |
| 50. | Catlin's Indian Gallery, Smithsonian Report, 1885, part II, p. 148. |
| 52. | Consult Maximilian, Trav., 1843, p. 258. |
| 52. | Letter from I. Allen, Stillwater, Mont. |
| 53. | Dodge, Plains of the Great West, Putnam, 1877, pp. 348, 349. SM. 93------43 |
| 54. | J. B, Dunbar: Pawnee Indians, sec, 20, |
| 55. | Maximilian, Travels, London, 1843, p. 195, mentions that the Sioux bows are similar. |
| 56. | J. B. Dunbar; The Pawnee Indians, |
| 57. | P. H. Ray. |
| 58. | Rev. M. Eells, Hayden's Bull., 1877, 3,pp.78-79. |
| 59. | Cf. Wilkes, Narrative, vol. v., p. 239. |
| 60. | Wilkes, Narrative, IV, 299. |
| 61. | "People of British Columbia." G. M. Dawson, p. 17. |
| 62. | See Bancroft, Native Races, vol. I, p. 188. |
| 63. | id. 214-215. |
| 64. | Jones, Smithsonian Report, 1866, pp. 322,324. |
| 65. | Jones, S. R., 1866, p. 324. |
| 66. | Father A. G. Morice, Trans. Canad. Inst., Toronto, 1894, IV, 58, 59 |
| 67. | See Bancroft, N. R. vol. I, p. 59. |