246 SAVAGE WEAPONS AT THE CENTENNIAL EXHIBITION. 



the group of Angola and Mozambique weapons, Fig. GO. It has a very 

 long tang projecting entirely through the handle, and secured thereto 



by raw-hide lashing. One end 

 has an axe-blade and the other 

 a spear point. The handle is 

 made by cutting off a limb of a 

 convenient length, and also a 

 small piece of the trunk at the 

 insertion of the branch. A 

 hole for the tang is then bored 

 through the knotty wood, where 

 the limb is as it were rooted into 

 the body of the tree. The han- 

 dle is then dressed to shape. 



Fio. eo.-mphantateofiheBmyai, Zambesi, Africa. ThQ Wade ^ sometimes three 



feet in length, and is carried over the shoulder. Itis used in ham-string- 

 ing the elephant. The hunters go in pairs, one carrying the axe while 

 the other goes before the animal to distract his attention. The axeman 

 comes up behind stealthily and severs one ham-string of the animal at 

 a single blow. One form of the elephant axe was noticed to have a 

 curved handle and a stay-lashing at a point six inches distant from the 

 socket. 



The Banyai of the Zambesi have also a convertible axe and adze. The 

 knob of the handle has two slits at right angles, so that the tang of the 

 blade may be optionally inserted either to bring the edge in line with 

 the sweep of the tool, as with the axe, or transversely, as with the adze. 

 Curiously enough the Water Dyaks, of Borneo, have a chipping tool of 

 the same kind used in boat-building. 88 It has an iron blade, wooden 

 head, and ratan (Malay rotari) lashing. The blade has a square tang, 

 and by taking it out of the socket, turning it one-quarter round, and in- 

 serting it again the blade is changed, in reference to the handle, from an 

 axe to an adze, or vice versa. 



Ii ... 6L — Axes of Egypt, India, Mexico, and Yucatan. 



The Djibba axe has two pointed prongs projecting lengthwise from 

 the head to make it efficient in thrusting. The Monbuttoo axe, 89 follow- 

 in- the universal African type, has its tang inserted through the thick 

 end of a knobbed club. 



Wood, vol. ii, p. 453. 



a ' Schweinfurtli's "Africa," vol. ii, p. 112. 



