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Wooden fletching

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Bryce:
bolts where made to fly no where near the hand. feathers where replaced by wood bc often caches of bolts where made by the thousands and stored. wooden fletching replaced feather bc they wouldnt degrade like the feathers would over time.

Tom Dulaney:
The sioux people used wood shavings for fletching before they imported feathers from other tribes/whites.  By wood shavings I mean the thin, hair like shavings you get from scraping arrow shafts with a transverse scraper. They were attached to arrows the way Pat B described the pine needle fletchings.

zoomer:
Thanks for replies. Yes, I now see why it is unsuitable for arrows for this sole reason.

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