Arrow quivers.

[Isobael]

Not sure if this is the right spot for the question, but here goes...

Traditional, Plains arrow quivers...

Doing a search for them online yields a million different ideas, and I know many of them are for looks, as opposed to function, but I'm making one, or will have one made by my father...and we have a question about them.

The materials to make it are not the problem, nor HOW to make them. The problem is...for functionality, what kept the arrow points from breaking and/or slicing through the leather when they're kept in the quiver?

I do not have a museum to go to in order to ask (I live in Western Washington, so many of the tribes and museums here deal more with coastal tribes and fishing, as opposed to Plains).

Did the Plains tribes (And I'll narrow this down to Lakota/Dakota/Nakota...Cheyenne...Blackfoot, and Crow)...insert any form of arrow tip protectors or a rawhide "cup" at the base of the quiver to keep the arrows from slicing through the leather or breaking tips off?

Thanks.

[xTekno]

maybe they used a disposable styrofoam base? :)

[gilisi]

Sometimes they used an arrow cup, just made of hide, 5 or 6 inches long, with a single shaft attached to it the length of the quiver to place or remove the cup. A lot of the time they would just put an extra hide lining on the bottom, and replace it when needed.