SAVAGE WEAPONS AT THE CENTENNIAL EXHIBITION. 265 



If 



six diminishing ears of corn with a round finial point. Similarly orna- 

 mented spear heads are made in Fiji. The other (d) has six gradually 

 decreasing sets of barbs 

 crowned by a finial. Other 

 spears from the Philippines 

 had shark's teeth tacked to 

 ridges on the head, and some 

 had metallic heads. They will 

 be shown presently. 



Jagor mentions that the 

 spear (pica) of the Philippines 

 is of caryota wood 2.27 m long ; 

 the head of bamboo, carved 

 wood, or iron (purchased). 146 



The large spear of the Sand- 

 wich Islands 147 is 12 or 15 feet 

 long and is not barbed, but 

 the hurling spear is G or 8 feet 

 long, of hard wood, and tapers 

 toward the butt, to throw the 

 center of gravity forward of 

 the mid-length and enable it 

 to fly straight. 



The Fijians, 148 who excel in 

 ingenuity, have several kinds 

 of spears. The fishing spear 

 has three or four points set 

 iu separately. Each point has 

 a round, square, or semicircu- 

 lar section, is dovetailed into 

 the shaft and lashed thereto 

 with sinnet. The war spear 



has a carved head, and barbs, |^ Mrffl 



either cut in the wood, or 

 made of the tail of the sting- 

 ray and set in separately ; 

 these brittle barbs come off 

 in the wound and insure cruel 

 suffering and generally death. 

 One Fijian spear is made of 

 a wood which bursts when 

 moist, so that it is with diffi- 

 culty extracted. The differ- 

 ent islands, SUCh as the Tonga, FlG - ^-—Spears of the Philippines. 



Herveys, Fiji, and the New Hebrides have distinguishable varieties of 

 spears. 



"" "Philippines," p. 210. "' Wood, vol. ii, p. 4I54. "« Williams " Fiji," pp. 44-5. 



