SAVAGE WEAPONS AT THE CENTENNIAL EXHIBITION. 



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it. The smaller bow was carried in a quiver by the 

 aide of the chariot along with the arrows, which were 

 reeds with heads of iron or copper. A linen guard 

 was strapped to the inside of the left arm to protect 

 the arm against the blows of the string. 



The bow and arrow of Queensland, Australia, are 

 shown in Fig. 139. The bow is G feet long and made 

 of the male bamboo, which is solid. The string is a 

 strip of ratan, which is beaten to remove the flinty coat- 

 ing and reduce it to a bunch of fibers, which is slightly 

 twisted. The arrow is of reed, from 3 to 5 feet long, 

 has no nick for the string, nor feathers for the butt. 

 The arrow-head is of hard wood, smooth, knobbed, or 

 barbed. As the bow and arrow are used only in the 

 northerly part of Australia, 220 around the Gulf of Car- 

 pentaria and in Queensland, it may reasonably be as- 

 sumed that they are of foreign origin, and the knowl- 

 edge of them imported from Papua. 



The New Guinean 221 arrow is a reed tipped with 

 hard, heavy wood, grooved to receive a tapered slice 

 of bamboo with a point made by an oblique cut. The 

 arrow is poisoned. The bow is feet in length, made 

 from the cocoa-nut tree, and has a string of ratan. 

 The arrows of the Solomon Islanders are tipped with 

 fish-bones; those of the Admiralty Islands are of reed 

 with hard-wood heads secured by ligatures of bark. 

 The Tonga Island arrows are of reed and hard wood? 

 the junction of the two being covered with plaited 

 sinnet and varnished. The Andaman Islanders 222 use 

 a bow of tough, strong wood 5 or G feet in length, and 

 having two flat bulges, one on each side of the central 

 hand-hold. The arrows are of ratan with a hard-wood 

 head and a barb made of a fish-bone, the tail-bone of 

 the sting-ray, or a nail when one can be procured. The 

 point of the arrow is sometimes poisoned. 



The bow of the Philippine Islands is a slab off the 

 side of a large bamboo, or it is sometimes made of 

 caryota wood; the string of abaca, 3""" in diameter. 223 



Other arrows (pana) have shafts (gaho) of caryota 

 wood and points (bucM) of bamboo, or sometimes the 

 whole arrow is of wood 1"' to 1.8 m in length. The heads 

 are hastate, barbed, three-pointed, or carved spirally. 



230 Wood, vol. ii, p. 4(5. 

 1221 Ibid., vol. ii, p. 225. 

 222 Mouat's "Andaman," pp. '271, 3-21. 



sssjagor's "Travels in the Philippines," London, 1875, pp. 657, 

 138, 210. 



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