Paiute Native American Tools

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    Spears

    • Paiute men would find a stick of appropriate length depending on what prey for which they were hunting. They also would find a stone and fashion it into an arrowhead, using another rock to carefully chip away at the stone until it comes to point. They used these throwing spears to hunt smaller game, such as rabbits.

    Bows and Arrows

    • Arrows were made in a similar fashion before being attached to smooth sticks that had been whittled by hand into the perfect size and shape. Certain tribes also attached feathers to the ends. These arrows were used in conjunction with handmade bows. However, these bows were extremely ineffective, which in turn caused the Paiute to be inefficient at hunting large game.

    Flint Knives

    • Flint knives were crucial to Native Americans. The tools were used to prepare game for eating, make traps, whittle arrows and prepare fabrics, as well as for hunting and survival. Later on, the knives were traded and sold to white settlers. They\ tools were made by hand out of a slice of flint rock, which was chipped, "flaked" and polished into a handheld knife.

    Clubs

    • Short, thick and heavy pieces of wood were carved into a club shape. These tools were used not only for protection against a sudden animal attack, but also to deliver the final blow to an animal if other hunting methods had not yet killed it.

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