When the cry of danger rang out that the enemy was attacking, or the alert came that game was in range providing the opportunity for needed food, one could, while on the run, grab his quiver and respond to the undertaking with killing results. To defend or provide for one's family, the quiver filled with bow and arrows was the total arsenal. To aid in his research, the author was presented with a 105-year-old study published in 1893 as the "Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution." There, a 50-page study called "North American Bows, Arrows, and Quivers," by Otis T. Mason provided undisputed knowledge for this endeavor...invaluable to this study as it becomes the documented truth for tribal geographic regional parallels for this subject matter. These items were collected during the so-called western Indian wars period and stand as icons as to what they looked like and how they were made and used. The combination of the Smithsonian paper, general text, vintage picture images, and photographic caption information completes this research...resulting in an exhaustive, non-paralleled quest exclusively dedicated to the subject of bows, arrows and quivers of the American Indian on the American frontier, primarily within the United States and southern Canada. Circa 1825-1925. Blue hb cover w/gold foil stamping, 8 1/2" x 11", 96 pages. Very well illustrated with 32 pages of color.
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