What is the narragansett Indians most powerful weapon?

Answer 1

It depends on what you mean by "powerful". A tank shell or hydrogen bomb is powerful because each generates its own power; the native tribes of North America had no such weapons and much of the power had to be provided by the muscles of the warrior himself.

Among the Narragansett people the weapons used were mainly bows and clubs of various kinds.

Narragansett bows (ahtomp in their language) were made of hickory and about 4 feet (1.22 metres) long, which is significantly shorter than those of their neighbours. Hickory is a very dense hardwood and it makes a fine bow that can shoot very fast, but this short length would decrease its effectiveness - Wampanoag bows were also of hickory but around 5 feet 8 inches in length, making them more powerful.

War clubs were made of heavy hardwood in the form of a ball with an integral curved handle that was sometimes inset with small triangular pieces of shell. in some cases the wooden ball was set with a small, sharp blade of quartz or felsite. Another type was made from the lower trunk and root ball of a birch sapling - the trunk section became the handle and the projecting root stumps were sharpened to make spikes.