SAVAGE WEAPONS AT THE CENTENNIAL EXHIBITION. 217 



clubs of the Dinkas of the Upper Nile 8 are also of hard wood made by 

 ridging and notching so as to leave rows of knobs, like many of the 

 Polynesian weapons. The form resembles the chocolate mailers we used 

 to see, and also suggests the Roman mace clausula. 



The club of the Dors of the Upper Nile 9 has been comparedin shape 

 to the mushroom, having - a round disk-shaped head 

 with a sharpened periphery. It is 30 inches in length 

 aud made of hard wood. The Djibba club has also 

 a flattened head with a sharp edge, which is guarded 

 by a sheath of hide when not in use. Another club 

 iu use in the last-mentioned tribe is champignon-shape, 

 like an uuexpanded mushroom. The King of Da- 

 homey 10 is versatile in clubs; one favorite form lias a 

 knobbed end and four square knobs at the side; another 



has along sharp spike at 

 the end projecting at rigid- 

 angles from the handle." 

 A variety of sticks and 

 clubs Mere brought from 

 the different Australian 

 provinces. The peculiar 

 hurling weapons, the boom- 

 erang and kangaroo rat, 

 will be considered pres- 

 ently. Fig. 3 is a Queens- 

 land native, armed with 

 his waddy and shield. 

 Waddy is a native name 

 for a simple club, as shown 

 in Fig. .">, and h and .'/, Fig. 4. The knobbed 

 club is known as the nulla-nidla, and is shown 

 in Fig. 5, and at c, Fig. 4. When the head 

 is flat and sharpened to an edge, the colo- 

 nists term them tomaliawTcs, from their resem- 

 blance to the North American Indian wea- 

 pon. Fig. 4 shows two wooden tomahawk's 

 (ae) of New South Wales, 12 a nulla-nulla (c), 

 and two waddies (b d). The typical Aus- 

 tralian waddy is 2 feet 8 inches long, weighs 

 L' pounds, and is made of the heavy and tough mountain tea-tree, 

 box,orred gum wood. It has a pointed end so that its thrust is dangerous. 13 



8 Wood's "Natural History of Man," vol. i. p. 524. 



9 Wood's "Natural History of Man," i. p. 494. 



10 Duncan's "Western Africa," p. 226. 



"The knob sticks of the Wanyamuezi arc shown in Stanley's "Livingstone," plate 

 opposite page r>44. 



'-' See the li-bil, R. Brough Smith's "Aborigines of Victoria," Fig. 97. 

 13 Wood's ••Natural History of Man," vol. ii, p. 2i). 



I': . " — .If oza in b iq a e 

 Clubs. Portug 



Col,,, U.S. 



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rii 



:;. — Native Australian with club 

 and •■! land. 



