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the noiiiise of the biowgun by each. Culture characteristics of each 

 resemble more the culture complex of adjoining peoples than that of 

 a common ancestry. 



The Takutamesa Papuans have shafted arrows of bamboo with 

 heads of leaf-shape split sections of bamboo stem. Line etchings on 

 arrow head and bamboo shaft probably represent animal figures. 



The Van der Willigen Papuan arrow type has but few line 

 etchings on its bamboo shaft but has elaborate barbing carved bilater- 



ially on its palm-wood foreshaft. A peculiarity noted is the reverse 

 feathering attached to foreshaft at the tip. The base of quill is 

 pointed toward the nock while the tip of feather is near the tip of 

 the arrow point. 



Arrows from the Papuans of the Upper Mamberamo Hiver are 

 as a rule tipped with bone, a diagonal section of which has been 

 removed to form a point. Etched lines occur both on bone point and 

 bamboo shaft. The foreshaft is of palm wood, is triangular in sec- 

 tion, and is deeply barbed in pairs along two of the intersecting 

 angles but not along the third. 



Arrows obtained at the junction of the Yan Daalen and Eouffaer 

 Rivers are tijiped with a cut section of bone. One of the arrows has 

 an unusually long foreshaft of palm wood with many diagonally cut 

 sunken panels which provides a jagged surface for lacerating and 

 making large wounds. 



The Sebit Papuans of the Upper Mamberamo Eiver Valley etch 

 an ornamental design on their bamboo arrow shafts by burning 

 banded lines around the circumference of shaft, also by etching 

 curvilinear figures representing animal forms. The foreshaft is 

 nndtiple barbed and bone tipped. 



The Papuans of the Kirakai Eiver have arrows with bamboo 

 shafts. Some of the foreshafts of palm wood are unusual in that 

 they have multiple trilateral barbs placed at lines of intersection of 

 the triangular sectioned foreshaft. 



Papuans of the Lower liouffaer River make, in addition to the 

 burned-etched banded designs used by the Sebit Papuans, peculiar 

 long dashlike punctated figures by burning. A leaf-shaped section of 

 bamboo stem is the usual form of arrowhead and usual material 

 employed by Papuans and Negritos alike. The sole exception is the 

 bone-tipped palm-v.ood point which is also foreshaft and occurs in 

 about 30 per cent of all Papuan arrows. It is not used by the 

 Xegritos. 



Bows are of uniform type and are inferior to the arrows from the 

 viewpoirits of artistic design, craftsmanship, and inventiveness dis- 

 played in their construction. They are long, straight, flat surfaced 

 on the inner and rounded on the outer side. The bow cord is a long 



