The Arrow-Maker: A Drama in Three Acts

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Mary Hunter Austin. The Arrow-Maker: A Drama in Three Acts

PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION

NOTE TO THE SECOND EDITION

PERSONS OF THE DRAMA

ACT FIRST

ACT SECOND

ACT THIRD

GLOSSARY OF INDIAN WORDS AND PHRASES

THE DANCES

COSTUMES

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The Arrow-Maker was first published as produced at The New Theatre, New York, in the spring of 1911. In that edition certain concessions were made to what was thought to be the demand for a drama of Indian life which should present the Indian more nearly as he is popularly conceived.

After four years the success of the published play as an authentic note on aboriginal life as well as a drama suitable for production in schools and colleges, seems to warrant its publication in the original form. As it now stands, the book not only conforms to the author's original conception of the drama, but to the conditions of the life it presents.

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Am I not also a tribeswoman? Would not I do so much for my people? But your gifts and your prayers will be acceptable to the gods, for of myself I can do nothing. (She stoops to the gifts, but hesitates.) Who is this that comes?

It is the Chief's daughter.

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