SAVAGE WEAPONS AT THE CENTENNIAL EXHIBITION. 



221 



abundant. 



Java has, however, two clubs deemed worthy of special 

 names, Indan and GadaP The 

 "war-fan" of the Japanese is 

 perhaps unique, being - of large 

 size and having a sheath of iron 

 so that it may do duty as a club 

 on emergency. 



Coming to America we find 

 a greater variety, if possible, 

 than Fiji furnishes, for those 

 astute islanders have but a 

 meager choice of materials — 

 wood and shell. Fig. 11 is an 

 Ojibeway war-club from Saga- 

 mook, on the north shore of 

 Lake Huron. Fig. 12 shows 

 two wooden clubs, one armed 

 fig. ii.— Ojibeway with an iron spike : they are 



wooden club, Can- . l 



ada. irom the Missouri \ alley In- 



dians. Spiked weapons have always been 

 in vogue, and a curious example of one is a 

 stag's-horn club with the brow 

 antler left as a spike, found in 



one of the Swiss Lakes. See memoir by M. E. Desor. 23 

 Stag's-horn hammers are also very numerous in the debris 

 of the lake dwellings. A hammer of serpentine with in- 

 serted helve and with a hammering face and pointed 

 peen is mentioned by Nilson. 24 Many other forms are 

 found among the Indian tribes, but the aim has been to 

 place together the wooden clubs made in a single piece. 

 Those in Avhich stones or metal are mounted will be shown 

 presently. Fig. 1 .5 is a pestle shaped war- 

 el nb of the Pai-Utes and Mohaves. They 

 are termed "face mashers," since they are 

 carried concealed about the person and 

 used tor striking an enemy in the face. 



Figs. 11 andl5are from the Pacific < 'oast. 

 They are elaborately carved war-clubs of 

 hard wood from the Ilaidah Indians of 

 Bella-bella, British Columbia. They are 

 what we should call " grotesquely carved," 

 but the emblems on them are mythological, 



Fig. 12. — Wooden clubs of Dakotah. — 

 National Museum. 



Fig. 14.— 

 w a r-cl 

 Honal Museum. 



Kaidah ;III( i \\ H , [flea of pleasantry does not, we are 



ub.—Na- ** p ]( , 



dub. — National Mu- 

 seum. 



in formed, enter into the work. Theeanoes, 

 totem-posts, paddles, bowls, and other ob- 



13.— Pai- ZTte 



--Sir Stamford Raffles' "Java," 4to ed., i, 296 (Figs. 8, 9). 

 23 Translation in Smithsonian Report, L865, page ::.j7. 



24 Ibid., page 359. 



