ARROW-HEADS. 



107 



arrow-heads, even from the most distant localities, may be 

 seen in figs. 123, 124, and 125, which represent specimens from 

 France, North America, and Tierra del Fuego respectively. 



The different forms were perhaps in use in different tribes, 

 but more probably they are due to the variety of purposes 

 for which they were intended ; thus in North FIG - 122 - 



America the war arrows taper to the end, so 

 that when the shaft is drawn out, the head 

 FIG. 119. 



FIG. 120. 



Arrow-heads. Ireland. 



remains in the wound ; while hunting arrows are expanded 

 at the end, so that the head is drawn out with the shaft. 

 The Bygas, an aboriginal tribe of Central India, according to 

 Forsyth, make the same distinction.* Among other tribes, 

 the lance-shaped arrows are used in hunting, barbed arrow- 

 heads in war.-f- The Negritos of the Philippine Islands have 

 three kinds of arrows. One, with a separate head-piece, for 

 wild boars, one for birds. The use of the third is not stated. 

 Every man carries one of each kind, j Another kind of arrow- 

 head resembled figs. 108 110, but in miniature. This form 

 is not confined to Northern Europe, but occurs elsewhere, as 

 for instance in Egypt, where one, still fixed to the shaft, has 



* Highlands of Central India, p. 361. 

 t Murray. Travels in North America, vol. i. p. 385. 



Z. f. Ethn. 1880. 



I Schadenlterg. 



