Southern Utonian | 1887-12-16 | Page 6 | Poisoned Arrows

poisoned toned arrows arrow the Nome cults were the only tribe in the vicinity of round valley who used poisoned arrows the larg largest es t rat rattlesnakes t I 1 as obtainable and consequently the most venomous were caught and killed the polon glands carefully extracted and placed in the gall bladders of animals until the whole became thoroughly mixed and decomposed the arrow heads beads were then anointed with some borne sticky substance usually tile pitch or sap of the pine and then dipped into the composition and left for a used fixed time these arrows were always used in warfare and also when tho the deer and other game were w wanted anted for the skins only the animal even if only fai lightly fitly wounded would soon swell up and die and not being able to run very far would soon bo be come up with overland monthly