| 词汇 | the game of the arrow |
| 词源 | the game of the arrow. American artist George Catlin re- corded this favorite (though little known) amusement of the Plains Indians: “The young men . . . assemble on the prairie [and] . . . step forward in turn, shooting their arrows into the air, endeavoring to see who can get the greatest number flying in the air at one time, thrown from the same bow.” |
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