Hunting Small Game These two teenage boys are hunting small game, one of the tasks that teenage boys often do. Today they've found some squirrels, but it could just as easily have been rabbits, or small birds such as grouse. You'll notice that the arrows they're using don't have the familiar stone or bone points.  A stone-tipped arrow is so sharp and powerful that it would destroy the squirrel's pelt, which the boys may want to keep intact; it makes a fine little pouch. So instead, they're using blunt-tipped stunner arrows. These arrows are fine for small game; the impact of the shot will do the job without piercing the skin. The bows that the boys are using are smaller than those usually used by adult men. Shooting with a full-size bow, five or more feet in length, requires considerable strength and skill. And in any case, there's no need for a mighty bow to kill a squirrel; even an adult sometimes prefers a smaller bow for small game.  Behind the Scenes with Director of Research Kevin McBride What I think about when I look at this scene is the division of labor that existed in a Pequot village. Someone's got to get the small game, and it's not going to be the adults if they're needed for other things. I think these kids are perfectly capable of adding to the food supply in the village. In fact, boys and girls probably were snaring and hunting small animals. The thing to remember about Pequot division of labor is that there was a lot of fluidity. We tend to think of men as doing all the hunting and fishing and that sort of thing. Well, that may well be true for deer drives and deep water fishing, but there's no reason that women couldn't do a lot of the things that we normally associate with men. We think of men as the flintknappers, but women certainly were, too. I'm sure women did some hunting and trapping, or snaring. Did women go out in the canoes and fish? Of course they did. Elderly women probably also did some line fishing, although I suspect they weren't dragging wood from a half mile away or carrying 50 pounds of corn on their backs. It's just common sense that everyone did what they could and contributed to what went on in the village.