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arrow. The small end of the bamboo shaft is at the proximal end, 

 which is abruptly truncated; the heavier distal end has inserted in 

 it an arrowhead, also made of bamboo. The hastate-shape head be- 

 comes thicker and narrower toward the point of insertion. The 

 hardened siliceous outer surface of the bamboo shaft has been re- 

 moved in two sections for a distance of 2.5 centimeters (1 inch), leav- 

 ing two projecting flanges, between which the neck and tang of the 

 arrowhead is inserted. A simple roll of wrapping of native cord 

 composed of two-ply abaca fiber encircles the shaft end as a ferrule 

 and envelops the tang of the arrowhead and the projecting bifurcate 

 sections of the shaft. There is no feathering or wrapping at the 

 nock end of shaft. 



Length of hastate arrowhead, 37.5 centimeters (14.8 inches) ; 

 length of shaft, 125 centimeters (48 inches). Collected by the Misses 

 E. H. and S. S. Metcalf. (PI. 3, No. 4.) Cat. No. 286267, U.S.N.M. 



Arrows, Negritos, Zamljales Province, Luzon.. — These arrows have 

 slender bamboo shafts, wrapped with bejuco and abaca fiber at distal 

 and proximal ends ; feathering consists of three feathers on one arrow 

 and of two oppositely placed feathers on the other. Arrowheads 

 are of iron, one spatulate and the other lanceolate leaf -shaped. 

 Tang is socketed in shaft. The broad arrowheads are designed to 

 make a large wound and thus to cause much loss of blood. 



Length of shaft, 91.5 centimeters (35.2 inches) . Collected by E. H. 

 Hammond. (PI. 4, No. 1, No. 5.) Cat. Nos. 288411-288412, U.S.N.M. 



Arrow, Negritos, Zamhales Province, Luzon. — This arrow has a 

 lanceolate leaf-shape iron arrowhead and is larger and longer than 

 most of the Negrito arrows, but is constructed in the same fashion 

 as the smaller previously described iron arrowheads. The feather- 

 ing has disappeared, but originally triple feathering was attached by 

 a wrapping of bejuco and abaca fiber at base of feather and again 

 at the tip with a similar wrapping. The great length of feathers 

 employed necessitated placing base of feathering at a considerable 

 distance from the proximal end of shaft. It is this detail in the 

 feathering that decides the position of the feathering on shaftment. 

 This statement does not imply that feathering has no additional 

 significance to the Negrito other than insuring accuracy of flight, 

 as previously pointed out. 



Length of arrow, 115 centimeters (44.2 inches). Collected by 

 Lieut. W. F. H. Godson, United States Army, near Camp Stotsen- 

 burg, Pampanga. (PL 4, No. 7.) Cat. No. 306681, U.S.N.M. 



Arrow. — Shaft consists of several sections of slender bamboo cut 

 off squarely at the nock. There is no feathering or wrapping except 

 at the distal end. The iron head has a well-marked median ridge 

 and rounded lateral edges near the base where it becomes con- 



