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Beautiful Arrows

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JackCrafty:
The belief in good luck and bad luck was common, and still is to some extent.  You are right about a human desire for wanting the equipment to be "dressed up" but the colors seem to have special significance.  With Ishi, I think he was more concerned about the actual colors, because he changed them, rather than painting the arrows "better" with the same colors.  He changed to "good luck colors" or removed the "bad luck colors", I can't remember which.

The topic of colors and artistic skill has not been addressed with as much enthusiasm as, say, how the Clovis point was fluted back in the day.  It's about time someone brought up the issue.  :)

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