222 SAVAGE WEAPONS AT THE CENTENNIAL EXHIBITION. 



It is 



jects fashioned in wood, exhibit the same style of ornamentation, as 

 it must be called. 



The Argentine Bepublic sent a mace, which is shown at Fig 

 of hard wood resembling - lignum vita', and is 

 48 inches long. It belonged to an Indian of 

 the pampas. A spear eight feet long, of the 

 same kind of wood and tapering to a point, 

 Mas exhibited with it. The club of the Gran 

 Chaco Indians 26 of the La Plata region is 

 square in section, larger towards each end, 

 and is grasped in the middle. It is called a 

 macana, and is used either as a hurling 

 weapon or as a club at close quarters. The 

 clubs of the Guiana Indians are maces of 

 square section, or paddle-shaped with some- 

 what sharp edges. The handles are em- 

 broidered with cotton string, some in a very 

 ornamental manner. The Uaupe Indians of 

 the Amazon 26 also use carved wooden clubs. 

 We come now to a class of clubs in which 

 a stone is mounted upon a withe or other 

 kind of handle to form a maul or hammer. 

 We do not in the present article consider 

 those which have sharp edges, and are de- 

 signed to form axes and adzes. They will Fl( 

 be grouped separately. Fig. 17 is about as 

 primitive an affair as can well be devised. 

 It isa shell-headed club from a shell-heap on Saint John's River, Florida. 



The head is a Pyrula, 

 and the specimen is 

 peculiar in this, that 

 though ancient it still 

 has the remains of the 

 original handle. 



In connection with 

 this method of mount- 

 ing, by a perforated 

 head through which 

 the helve is thrust, 

 mention may be made 

 of hammer stones, 

 sometimes known as 

 helved wedges, simi- 

 larly handled, and 

 SheU I adt delubJromaFloridaeheU-heap. — National Museum. \\],\i.] t have been hurl- 

 ing axes. They are more frequent in Europe than in America. Some 



Fig. is. — Maidah 

 earvi d war-club. — 



Nat in » a I M a - 



HI II III. 



16. — Mace 

 from Paraguay, 

 Argentine Con- 

 federation. 



Pig. 17. 



"Wood, vol. ii, pp. 569, .".7". 



-'" Wallace's ''Amazon," 504. 



