Word: arrows
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Brainard, G H, 4 Arrow street...
...Farrabee, who spent last May and June excavating mounds in Coahoma County, Mississippi, with the help of a company of ten men. The collection includes a number of well-preserved skeletons of mound-builders, some good fragmentary pottery, including many colored and decorated specimens, and an excellent collection of arrow and lance heads, knives, and other stone implements. The classification of this collection, which filled twelve large boxes, will occupy several months...
...Museum has purchased also, with the vessels, a collection of arrow heads, axes, ceremonial instruments and ornaments. Most of these are made of flint or slate, and were evidently fashioned with extreme care...
...baskets are made extremely carefully and are often the result of two or more years' work. The various designs in the straw are symbolic and show the coat of arms, as it were, of the family. Although unintelligible to the European eye, to the Indian they represent collections of arrow heads, tracks of various animals, quail crests and other significant symbols...