CARRIZO ARROWS Yucca QuiverCarrizo Native American arrows and yucca stalk quiver made by Andres Albañes in the 1990s, a Kumiai-PaiPai Indian from Santa Catarina, Baja California, Mexico. Native American arrows in the nearby Indian village of La Huerta, by Perveril Meigs III in 1929, were about three feet in length for a 4-1/2-foot plain hunting bow. A long wooden point was inserted in a shaft of CARRIZO REED or mirasol ("sunflower" likely that is still used for arrows in Rancho Escondido and Santa Catarina). Sinew-wrapped hawk fletching completed the arrow with traditional arrowheads of sharpened hardwood, attached with Indian sinew. Meigs noted pine gum was sometimes used on the sinew to prevent it from coming unwound and Albañes said the Kumeyaay and PaiPai Indians sometimes employ pine pitch to help secure the feathers to the arrow as well. For Paul Campbell's complete documentation on Native American bow making, including detailed history about California Indian bows arrows, please see his highly-recommended book: REVIEW THIS BOOK REVIEW THIS BOOK (With Buy Now Info Link to Ebay) BUY similar Native American bows and arrows world-wide at Shumup Ko Hup Native American Indian store and gift shop of the California Indians of Southern California, northern Baja California, Mexico, and southwest Arizona, including linked artists directory containing bow-making Indian artists biographies, photos pictures catalogs of their authentic ethnographic arts and crafts for sale. |
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