SAVAGE WEAPONS AT THE CENTENNIAL EXHIBITION. 



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bamboo knife in decapitating their enemies to prepare the heads as tro- 

 phies. The gentle savages are, however, not oblivions of the value of 

 metal when they have an opportunity to see it. Francis Sparrow, whom 

 Raleigh left to explore the country of the Orinoco, received eight beau- 

 tiful young women for a red-handled knife — value in England at that 

 time equal to one cent. 



The Australian dagger is a stick pointed at both ends, grasped by the 

 midlength, and struck right and left. 115 



Fig. ffl.—Greenlandem' bone knives. 



In the extreme northern countries no material is so ready to hand as 

 bone. The harpoons, knives, and many other domestic implements of the 

 Eskimo are of bone. Fig. G9 shows the fish and blubber knives of the 

 Kajak natives of Greenland. They were shown in the Danish collection 

 in the Main Building, a is made of the bone of a whale, and is 18 inches 

 long; b is of wood, and is 10 inches long. Fig. 70 shows two other bone 

 implements of the Kajaks, a bone knife used in skinning the seal, and 

 a fish scoop. The knife is 14 inches long and two and a half inches wide; 

 the bone spoon is four inches long and two wide. 



Fig. To. — Bone implements of Greenland. 



Some of the bone knives of the Laplanders are very elaborate, espe- 

 cially those used in preparing skins. 



116 Smith's "Aborigines of Victoria," vol. i, p. 302. 



