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Show Indians' Poisoned' Arrows The burean of ethnology says thst the arrow poison used by the Indians was of vegetal and animal origin. Among the vegetal poisons there wer the snp of the yucrs angustlfolla. a preparation of aconite, and a plant called mago, the milk of which was poison. Some tribes, such as the Sho-shoni Sho-shoni and Bannock Indiana, secured a deer snd caused It to be bitten by a rattlesnake. The deer was then killed and allowed to putrefy. Tben the arrows ar-rows wer dipped into the putrid matter. |