Thank you Peacebow_Coos much appreciated
Don, decide not to make the real arrows ....but did make examples to be used as visual aids for a school program.
Here are the pics. First are the 4 major fletching styles from Eastern tribes. The first pic...left to right Eastern split shaft (one feather in a split shaft) next Eastern woodland two fletch next 2 fletch glued and tied cut lower than the folded full feather two fletch and finally Eastern woodland three fletch glued and tied. There are of course variations of these four but you can consider this "the basic food groups"
The arrow heads show two types of "war heads" and the flint hunting head. Here is the scoop on the diference......a hunting head is built to do everything possible to kill quickly the war heads on the other hand are made to kill positively but slowly, generally through septicemia. Notice that the war heads are partially blunt...only want them in 3-5 inches....then got a big problem. The arrows are to blunt to push through, and if you try to withdraw them they leave the nasty behind. In one case it's fine toxic slivers (usually these are made from cedar, tamarack etc there resins are real bad inside your body.......now for the turtle claw, the front of the shaft is first cut to form a pair of connected cylinders, that is "grooved" so that the turtle claw has a sort of "nest" where it is tied with very fine sinew using the cut shoulder as the tie point. This arrow is too blunt to completely penetrate the body and the claw fish-hooks the fine sinew gets wet from warm blood and softens very quickly but again that is not necessary....it cant be pushed through and trying to withdraw it the turtle claw and sinew are left behind to fester. The sinew and the skin end of the claw are particularly toxic because of inherent bacteria.
The last thing I got say here is this....before you feel sorry for the French, Yanks, and Brits....both the Brits and Americans unleashed "presents" to the Chippewa and Ottawa that contained small pox which killed a large percentage of the population and that's Men / women / and children. They did that purposely and on two separate occasions These arrows were made to make a statement.
Enjoy the pics....and let this thing go away
rich
