title: Blackfeet: Artists of the Northern Plains : The Scriver Collection of Blackfeet Indian Artifacts and Related Objects, 1894-1990
author:  Bob Scriver 
description: Bob Scriver was a man of great and varied accomplishments: an internationally recognized Western sculptor, an accomplished trumpet player with a master's degree in music, a well-known taxidermist, and with his father, Thaddeus Emery Scriver, a collector and preserver of a large segment of Blackfeet Indian material and culture.
zlib_text: Shafts from an Eastern Q.uiver by Charles J. Mansford 
  - July 1892 to June 1893 
  1. Tbe Diamonds of Shomar s Queen 
  2.. The Jasper Vale of the Falling Star 
  3· The Bla�ck Horsemen ofNisha the Seer 
  4· Darak, the Scom of fu,e Afghans 
  5· The SV¥'ord-.Hilt of the Idol at Delhi 
  6. The Hindu Fakir of the Silent City 
  1· Margarita, th�e B{)nd Queen of the Wandering DhallS 
  8. The Masked Ruler of the 'Black V\treckers 
  9· Maw -Sa yah: T.he Keeper of the Great Burman Nat 
  10. Tl1e Hunted Tribe of Three Hm1d.r,e:d Peaks 
  1.1. ln Quest of the Lost Galleon 
  u. The Daughter of Lovetski the Lost 
  
  Shafts from an Eastern Qm1.1er. 
  I.-THE 
  DIAMONDS 
  OF 
  SHOMAR'S QUEEN. 
  BY CHARLES ]. MANSFORD, B.A. 
  I. 
  FANCY that Hassan has been 
  drawing on his imagination 
  again, old . fellow," 
  said my 
  c o m p anto n ,  
  Frank Denviers, 
  as we 
  sat con­
  \'CT$ing one 
  evening at the 
  door of our tent. 
  ''Perhaps so," I responded, 
  puffing away at a hookah ; 
  ''he has his 
  faults, like the 
  rest 
  of 
  these 
  Arab�