13Y J. .TENXINGS. 797 



The Central and South American throwing sticks have been 

 dealt with in a most thorough manner by Dr. Ed. Seler* in a 

 paper entitled " Altmexicanische Wurf bretter," which is finely 

 illustrated both b}' woodcuts and coloured plates. Dr. Hjalmar 

 .Stolpe in the same publicationf communicates a valuable article 

 on the subject, and furthermore gives illustrations of tlie weapons 

 used by the Tecunas, Canibos, Quito, Campevas and Chambiriguas 

 tribes of South America, in all ofwhich the spear is k(jpt in place 

 by a peg. 



EXPLANATION OF FIGURES. 

 The light hand ilivision of the plate constitutes fig. 1 ; the left, fig. 2. 



* Internationales Archiv^ fiir Ethnographie, 1S90, Band iii. pp. 137-148, 

 PI. XI. 



t Loc. cif. pp. 234-238. 



