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THE correspondence referring to the feathering of arrows1 recalls some seen at Parà about the beginning of the century in a collection of various gear and costume of the Amazon Indians. It would seem that these folk liked their arrows to spin, for at any rate some of them were feathered with fairly long narrow feathers, the tips of a pair were bound on opposite sides near the butt and again tied further along the shaft again on opposite sides but with a half turn ; so that one feather was on one side at the end and on the other further along. If memory serves me, many of the feathers were those of the arà or macaw, of which, too, were made wonderful helmets or head-dresses.
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NATURE, 140, 1016 (Dec. 11, 1937); 141, 123 (Jan. 15, 1938).
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DURHAM, H. Axial Spin of Arrows. Nature 141, 290 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/141290c0
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