[Illustration: Fig. 8. Point made of Bone. From Kennewick. 1/2 nat. size. (Drawn from a sketch. Original in the collection of Mrs. Davidson.)] [Illustration: Fig. 9 (202-8143). Scorched Point made of Bone. From grave No. 1 in a rock-slide of the Yakima Ridge. 1/2 nat. size.] [Illustration: Fig. 10 (20.0-1468). Point made of Bone. Found in a grave on an island in the Snake River, five miles above its mouth, 1/2 nat. size. (Collected and presented by Mr. Owen.)] [Illustration: Fig. 11. Point or Barb made of Bone. From the Yakima Valley below Prosser. 1/2 nat. size. (Drawn from a sketch. Original in the collection of Mr. Spalding.)] [Illustration: Fig. 12 (202-8381). Point or Barb made of Bone. From the surface, near the head of Priest Rapids. 1/2 nat. size.] _Bows._ The only information which we have regarding bows is from the specimen shown in Fig. 114. The object seems to be a fragment of a bow which was lenticular in cross section although rather flat. It is slightly bent and the concave side bears transverse incisions. (p. 125.) The specimen was found in grave No. 10 (5) in a rock-slide about one hundred and fifty feet up the slope on the north side of the Naches River, about half a mile above its mouth. The presence of several perishable objects in the grave suggest it to be modern, but no objects of white manufacture were found. This is the only object indicating the sort of bow used in this region and with the exception of the chipped points previously described, some of which were undoubtedly for arrows, is the only archaeological object tending to prove the use of the bow. It will be remembered[63] that fragments of a bow of lenticular cross section ornamented with parallel irregularly arranged cuneiform incisions, were found in a grave near Nicola Lake in the Thompson River region and that pieces of wood, some of which may have been part of a bow, were found in a grave at the mouth of Nicola Lake; also that pieces of wood found at Kamloops resemble a bow of the type shown in Fig. 220 of Mr. Teit's paper on the present Thompson Indians.[64] In the Nez Perce region to the east, war clubs with heads made of unworked river boulders, according to Spinden,[65] were sometimes used in killing game and such may have been the case in this region. [63] Smith, (c), p. 411. [64] Teit, (a), Fig. 216. [65] Spinden, p. 188 and 227, also Fig. 5^5. _Snares._ Fragments of thongs, skin, fur and woodpecker feathers merely suggest methods of hunting or trapping which are not proven by any of our finds. It is barely possible although not probable that the bone tubes considered to have been used in gambling and illustrated in Figs. 97 and 98 and also the perforated cylinder of serpentine shown in Fig. 99 may be portions of snares. Traps and snares of various kinds were common among the Indians of the larger plateau area of which this is a part.[66] [66] Lewis, p. 182.