Show USED POISON OF rattlesnake reparation that made war arrows of cherokee Indians Deadly an old cherokee indian re centy save gave away the secret how the of at olden times used to poison theler ow heads for war purposes or for killing bears according to the denver field and farm they took a fresh deer liver fastened it to a long pole and then went to certain places whery they know they would find rattlesnakes iri akes in abundance about midday the rattlers tire are all out of their dens oiled up in the cooking sun the bucks backs would poke the first rattler they found with the liver on the long pole A rattler unlike common snakes always shows fight in preference to escaping the snake would thus repeatedly peat edly strike at the liver with its ita fangs until its poison was all used up whereupon it would quit striking and try slowly to move on tho the bucks would then hunt up another rattler and repeat tho the performance keeping up the work until the liver was well soaked with snake poison then the pole was carried home and fastened somewhere in an upward position until the liver became as dry its as a bone the ili liver er was then pounded to ft a fine powder and placed in a buckskin bag to be used as needed for their arrows this powder would stick like glue to lo any ally moistened surface and was waa death to affy any creature which it entered on arrows ft |