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Hunting with Cane: Traditional Cherokee Blowguns and Darts

Every time I do programs, someone always asks, “What did Native Americans use for poisons on their blowgun darts?” As of this writing, I have found no ethnographic or archaeological source for the use of poisons on blowgun darts in the Southeast. Poisoned darts are a combination of truth and fancy.