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Plate 16, Figure 1
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Plate 16, Figure 1
FIGURE 1. Weapons (waiishi) given by Sun to the Twins. a, Dart used before any other weapon; corn cob (brown), large and burned and smoothed with stone; wood foreshaft (black) with arrowpoint (gray); feathers of any kind. b, Throwing stick (chaipichama), hard wood (brown) with lightning design (gray). c, Club of hard wood (brown), chaitsi (rabbit-club root). d, Otiawani of hard wood (brown). e, Arrow of achĭti wood (brown); eagle feathers (black) and arrowhead (gray) tied with sinew. f, Bow of oak (brown) with sinew back; string of sinew which is laid out flat, wet, then twisted up.
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Plate 16, Figure 2
FIGURE 2. Shield and pouch of the Twins. a, Shield of buffalo hide; the two-headed water snake (brown) that the Twins killed at the time of the flood; stone point (tip white, butt yellow, with 2 lines, blue and red above) that Lightning (red) tried to kill them with, the colors representing the different kinds of stone points that were used; bottom, water waves (blue); eagle feathers. b, Pouch (light tan).