SAVAGE WEAPONS AT THE CENTENNIAL EXHIBITION. 



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pots, and shaves his head — or rather that of his friend. 

 His other weapon is a club ; he does not use the bow and 

 arrow. 



The Bechuana assegais 182 have cruel barbs on their shafts, 

 being originally forged square and the barbs made by cut- 

 ting and raising the corners. The assegai of the Damaras has 



a broad, leaf-shaped, soft-iron blade 

 a foot in length j it has a strong han- 



FlG. 



113. — Copper harpoon point, 

 Alaska. 



die, on which is a flowing ox-tail. 



The spear of the Gran Chaco In- 

 dian of La Plata is 15 feet long ; it is his principal war weapon, 

 and is also used as a vaulting-pole in mounting his horse. The 

 Fuegain thro wing-spear is shorter and has a row of barbs down 

 one sides 

 The harpoon -point of native copper, with unilateral barbs, is 

 shown in Fig. 113. It is from the Atnacs of Cop- 

 per River, Alaska. The harpoon used by the Ahts 

 of Vancouver's Island in whale-fishing has a yew 

 handle ten feet long, on the end of which is a de- 

 tachable iron barbed blade ; it has a line of deer 

 sinews counectiug with the main cord of cedar- 

 bark twine laid up into a rope and having a num- 

 ber of inflated seal skins attached. 



The fish-spear of the Frobisher Bay Eskimo, 

 Fig. 114, has a point of iron, and incurved barbs 

 made from sharpened nails set in flexible bone 

 prongs, which are lashed to the short pine- wood 



handle. Fig. 115 is the 

 salmon spear of the Pas- 

 samaquoddy Indians. It 

 has a long stout shaft, 

 wooden prongs, and iron 

 point. 



Norway sent some rel- 

 ics of the past, the hal- 

 berds and lances, Fig. 

 L16. 



Throwing - sticks are 

 used in many parts of 

 the world to increase the 

 power of flight of the 

 spear by extending the 

 radius of the arm in 



iu.~Fish- H| throwing. The thrOW- 



spear, Frobisher ■ 



Bay Eskimo. FiG.llG— Norwegian halberds, stick of the Alist I aliailS, 



182 Wood, vol. i, p. 314. 



