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Apache Style Phragmites Arrows

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JackCrafty:
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JackCrafty:
Well, after more research and more knapping, here are the results:

I've been obsessing over the photo below and I'm pretty sure the arrowhead on the right is a Lott type arrowhead.
The arrowhead on the left was giving me a headache until I did a little experiment....






I made a couple arrowheads in the classic "Desert" shape (Desert General, in this case)....






And then I knocked off the tips of the barbs, ears, and point of one of the arrowheads....






And then mounted the arrowhead to a foreshaft with some darkened pitch and some sinew....










And PRESTO!....mystery solved.



It appears that the arrowhead on the left has been subjected to a lot of rough handling and all the sharp projections have been broken off.  In fact, this is probably the case in a  lot of the museum pieces I've seen....and I've often wondered why the quality of some of the arrowheads looks so poor on actual artifacts.  Now I know. :)



Here are more examples of arrowheads that would be appropriate for Apache arrows:

(From left to right: Lott, Garza, Toya, Awatovi, Starr, Desert)

JackCrafty:
After studying several pictures and illustrations of museum pieces,
this next series shows the way I think the typical Apache arrowhead was mounted to the foreshaft:





(The arrowhead on the right is the experimental arrowhead shown in the previous reply)

donnieonetrack:
Patrick, can you tell me the name of the book you reference.  I collect books that have anything about native american archery and the ones with photos are the best.

As always great how-to.

thanks,

Donnie

recurve shooter:
holly cow we just found a jungle of this stuff. i aint much for arra makeing but i may trie it, and im deffinently going to be havesting it for trade and what not! ;D

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