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The shaft is made from a single circular piece of wood, which flattens to form U-shaped nock at proximal end. Ends of two feathers (only fragments remain) are secured to proximal end of shaft with sinew wrapping. The foreshaft is made from two pieces of bone oval in cross-section, spliced together and secured with three circular copper rivets. Single notch on one side of proximal end of foreshaft. The foreshaft is inserted into distal end of shaft and secured with sinew wrapping. A triangular iron point is inserted into pointed distal end of foreshaft and secured with a circular copper rivet.
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