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Title: Antiquities of the southern Indians, particularly of the Georgia tribes
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Jones, Charles C. (Charles Colcock), 1831-1893
Subjects: Indians of North America Indians of North America
Publisher: New York : D. Appleton and Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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o calls him an apprenticewarrior; thus they are formed by emulation, withoutcorporal punishment; they are very expert in shootingwith an instrument made of reeds, about seven feetlong, into which they put a little arrow, feathered withthe wool of a thistle, and, in aiming at an object, theyblow into the tube, and often hit the aim, and fre-quently kill little birds with it.2 Captain Romans, in speaking of the same Indians,writes: The young savages also use a very strait cane, 1 Lieutenant Timberlake, in his memoirs (p. 45), mentions the circumstancethat the Cherokee children at eight and ten years of age were very expert at killingbirds and small game, with a sarbacan or hollow cane through which they blewa small dart, and with such precision that they rarely missed of striking thelarger sort of prey in the eye. These small arrow-points, to which allusion hasbeen made, were probably chipped for childrens arrows. 2 Travels through Louisiana, vol. i., p. 306. London, 1771. 7>(a.te3X.
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AM PHOTO-LITHOGRAPHIC CO .V Ya OSBORNES PROCESS BLOW-GUNS. BOWS AND ARROWS. 257 eight or nine feet long, cleared of its inward divisionsof the joints; in this they pnt a small arrow, whoseone end is covered one-third of the whole length withcotton, or something similar to it; this they hold near-est their mouth, and blow it so expertly as seldom tomiss a mark fifteen or twenty yards off, and that soviolently as to kill squirrels and birds therewith. 1 Between this miniature arrow-tip and the largeflint spear-head, measuring nearly fourteen inches,these implements are seen of every intermediatelength, and of various colors—red, blue, yellow,white, black and brown predominating. The arrowand spear points of the Southern Indians, as a gen-eral rule, are more beautiful than those manufac-tured by tribes who inhabited northern latitudes. Theabundance of birds and small game in the swampsand deep forests of this semi-tropical region invited theuse of flint implements of a delicate charact

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