290 SAVAGE WKAFOXS AT THE CENTENNIAL EXHIBITION. 



They have different Dames: bulog, bold, serdpong, &c. They are some- 

 times dipped in a poisonous mixture looking like tar, and made from the 

 mixed inspissated juices obtained from the bark of two trees. The quiver 

 is of bamboo; the arrow is frequently a cane with a tip of hard wood 

 (sharpened), bamboo, hone, or metal. The arrows exhibited in the 

 Spanish Building are shown in Fig. 140. 

 The bow, club, and sling are not found among the primitive Dyaks or 



any other aborigines of Malayo-Poly- 

 nesia, except tbeBisayan race. 224 The 

 Sagais of Borneo use the sumpitan 223 

 for propelling poisoned arrows by 

 means of the force of the breath. The 

 natives called a rocket a "fire sumpi- 

 tan." The blow-gun, which is similar 

 to the zarabatana of the Macooshees 226 

 of South America, is a tube of hard 

 wood (Casuarina equisetifolia\ 7 or 8 

 feet long, and with a bore of half an 

 inch. An iron muzzle-sight is fixed 

 upon the upper side and a spear upon 

 the lower, the latter serving to keep 

 the tube straight, its projecting blade 

 also serving as a weapon. The arrow, 

 *■ sumpit, is 9 inches in length, formed 

 of a leaflet rib of the nibon palm. The point of hard wood is smeared 

 with tlie deadly poison of the Upas tree, and has brittle barbs or the 

 tail-bone of the sting-ray. which breaks off in the wound. The arrow 

 is run through a cone of the pith of the nibon wood, which fits the bore 

 and prevents windage. The range is variously stated at from 40 to 150 

 yards— from 10 to s i> yards is the more probable statement. 



The common bow of India is made from the male bamboo, bound at 

 intervals with belts of split ratan. Another form is made of horn and 

 wood, 'flic hand-hold and the ends are wood and the two intervening 

 pieces are of a buffalo horn which is sawed lengthwise, flattened by heat 

 and pressure, and fastened by long splice joints to the middle and end 

 pieces. It is like the arcus patulus of the Romans. Sinews are laid 

 along the back of the bow and so agglutinated by heat, moisture, and 

 pressure that they appear to form one piece with the body of the bow. 

 'flic w hole is then anointed with glue and ornamented according to taste. 

 The horn portions are principally involved in the flexure, and when the 

 l'..\\ is unbent it recurves and assumes the shape of the letter ■•(•/• the 

 back bring inward like the arcus sinuosus of the classic period. The 

 bow string is of \ egetable fiber. The arrow is of reed with a hard-wood 



-•' I'.i-l. -h.T> "Eastern Archipelago," vol. ii. p. 338. 



!■••• Li 'a "Dyaks of Borneo," pp. 251, -s>-2: Raffles' "Java," 4to, vol. i. p. 296, and 

 PL; Belcher's " Eastern Archipelago," vol. i. i>. -2-21 ; vol. ii, pp. 133, 134. 

 Wood, vol. i. i>. . - 



Pig. 140. 



