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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. The ends of two feathers (only fragments remain) are secured to proximal end of shaft with sinew wrapping. The foreshaft is made from a single piece of bone, oval in cross-section, with two deep notches on one side at proximal end. 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 an iron rivet.
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