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What weapons did the mohawk Indians use before the white man came?
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Before contact with Europeans, the bow was the main weapon among all the Iroquois tribes. Mohawk bows were made of hickory, around 72 inches (6 feet) tall and recurved at each end - a surviving example has a plant fibre string and is elaborately carved and painted. Arrows were made of split hickory, around 28 or 29 inches long and with very unusual and distinctive fletchings of turkey or hawk feathers.
Secondary weapons were war clubs. The favourite type was the "ball-headed" club of hardwood such as maple, carved from a single piece with a large ball at the end and either a straight or curving handle. They ranged from 2 to 3 feet in length.
Another type of club had a stone head lashed to a wooden handle with rawhide.
As soon as they could obtain guns from Europeans, the Iroquois tribes seem to have abandoned the use of bows very quickly.
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