220 SAVAGE WEAPONS AT THE CENTENNIAL EXHIBITION. 



Fig. 9.-; 



as Tylor has called it, was peculiar to this ingenious cannibal race, the 

 antipodes of the British, but it appears that the Peruvians make a 

 weapon of exactly similar shape; one has been found of dark brown 

 jasper, ir and another of a greenish amphibolic stone. 18 

 Another of native copper has been found in Michigan, and 

 was shown at the Centennial. It is 16^ inches long, 2| inches 

 wide for 11 inches of its length, contracts 

 to l.J, inch, and then enlarges to 2 inches, 

 to assist the hand -grasp. No deduction 

 of importance is to be made from this ; the 

 blade is bat 1J inch wider than the han- 

 dle, and the probability is that the piece 

 of native copper approximated that shape, 

 the work of the owner consisting in flat- 

 tening, sharpening, and shaping it sym- 

 metrically. 



Crossing the Southern Ocean we reach 

 the Fiji islands, lately come into the pos- 

 session of Great Britain. The Fijian is a 

 Papuan -race, and remarkable for con- 

 Pdtu bmmu structive ability. The club is his great 

 yew Zealand, weapon, and upon it heexpends his lavish 

 carving, the implements being of various sizes and 

 patterns, the handiwork being all guided by individ- 

 ual taste." The display at the Centennial was not 

 large, the islands not being specially represented. {Uneofwhai 

 The classification of their clubs into large, small, 

 knobbed, hladcd. axe-shaped, straight, or curved gives but a faint idea 

 of* the variety. The dromo is a spiked mace, and resembles some of the 

 North American Indian clubs. The diii is like the doable Phrygian 

 axe. The totokea is a spiked hammer. 1 ' The stem of a small tree, with 

 a swelling bole, and the radiating roots trimmed as projecting knobs, is 

 a common style. Another form is made by bending over a young sap- 

 ling nearly to the ground, so as to bring the tap-root at right angles to 

 the stem. When the tree has sufficiently grown, it is cat and shaped, 

 and the tap-root forms a laterally-projecting knob with a circle of spikes 

 formed of the other roots, shortened and sharpened. Other clubs are 

 like maces; squared and notched; with pyramidal or mushroom tops; 

 ornamented with braided coir, with wicker-work, with feathers worked 

 in witli sinnet, inlaid with shell, hone, hog's tasks, human or whale's 



teeth. 21 



We miss clubs when we come to lands where the more deadly metal is 



17 Klemm, C. N.. part ii, page 26. 

 [8 Kivero«X Tschudi.1 Plates, pi. xxxiii. 

 "Smythe's "Ten Months in Fiji," p. 120. 



- Williams. "Fiji," pp. 43-4; 589. 

 21 Wood, vol. ii, p. 275. 



