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Copyright 1949, NATIONAL BISCUIT COMPANY Book One NABISCO SHREDDED WHEAT

STRAIGHT ARROW

INDIAN ARROW MAKING

Select a piece of ash, maple or any other straight grained wood which is 1/4" in diameter and about 30" long. It should be straight.

1/4"
27" TO 30"

In years gone by the American Indian spent hours selecting his arrow shafts from straight tree limbs. Straight Arrow suggests you obtain them already, completely and inexpensively, made up at lumber yards.

With a knife, slice turkey or chicken tail feathers down the middle like this.

Cut a notch in the end of the shaft for the bow string.
GLUE
STRING
GLUE
2" 
5"
Glue 5" sections of feathers to the shaft like this.

3 feathers are glued to the shaft evenly spaced around it. The lighter colored feather is glued perpendicular to the flat sides of the arrow-head. The other 2 feathers are darker.

ARROW-HEAD FLAT SIDE
ARROW-HEAD SIDE VIEW
INDENTED AREA
NOTCH
Notch the shaft to fit the arrow head

Tie the arrow-head to the shaft using heavy cord

EDGE

EDGE

Straight Arrow suggests that for target practice you carve your arrow-heads out of wood.....
Indians, for hunting purposes, grind their arrow-heads out of [[first?]] stones or hammer them from soft metal.

Card No. 17 in a series of 36 STRAIGHT ARROW INJUN-UITITES

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