PRIMITIVE WEAPONS AND ARMOR OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS 41 



stricted into the tan<2j which is inserted over the bamboo shaft. 

 There are no barbs; the liead is one of the finest, aU hough the 

 shaft is quite crudely made. 



Lengjth of head, 12.7 centimeters (5 inches) ; length of shaft, 77 

 centimeters (30.3 inches). Collected by Mrs. James F. Courts. 

 (PI. 4.) Cat. No. 292420, U.S.N.M. 



Arroios. — These Moro arrows differ from one another in several 

 respects. No. 275743, U.S.N.M., has a wood shaft, while No. 

 275745, U.S.N.M., has a shaft of slender bamboo. The latter is 

 feathered while the former is not. No. 275745, U.S.N.M., has a fore- 

 shaft of wood, a lanceolate iron head, and a panel of rickrack 

 ornamentation on shaft. The ferrule of wrapped cord at distal 

 end of foreshaft and at base of bamboo shaft is covered with a 

 black gummy substance like beeswax. No. 275743 has ferrule of 

 nickel silver of nonnative manufacture. 



Average length of arrows, 107 centimeters (41 inches). Col- 

 lected by Maj. H. G. Lyon, United States Army. (PI. 4, No. 4, No. 

 9.) Cat. Nos. 275743-5, U.S.N.M. 



J.?T(?u's, Moro^ Mindanao. — The variation in type to be noted in 

 these arrows is characteristic of the diversity shown by the Moro in 

 the production of other metallic weapons. One arrow has a shaft of 

 black hardwood, tapered from the distal toward proximal end; no 

 feathering or wrapping cord ; truncated nock end ; ferrule of copper 

 socketed over tang end of iron arrowhead and punched at base so "as 

 to adhere to wood shaft ; lanceolate head, tapered at the neck where 

 it expands to a socket adjoining the copper ferrule. Two of the 

 arrows have a light slender cane shaft, wrapped at both ends with rat- 

 tan; hardwood foreshafts ornamented with banded fillets incised 

 at intervals; narrow^, acute pointed iron heads have tang inserted in 

 foreshaft. Shaft is not feathered and is abruptly truncated at 

 nock. 



Average length of arrows, 77 centimeters (30.3 inclies). Collected 

 by Dr. E. R. Hodge, United States Army. (PI. 4, Nos. 6, 8, 2.) 



ArroxD loith iron pointy Bikol, sonthern Luzon. — The shaft is com- 

 posed of several joints of bamboo; foreshaft is of hardwood; head 

 consists of iron. The highly polished bamboo shaft has surface deco- 

 rations of transversely incised lines near the nodal elevations and a 

 rickrack pattern near the nock section of shaft. Nock is grooved in 

 characteristic Negrito style but is not feathered. The shaft is 

 wrapped with rattan filleted for a distance of 1 centimeter at each 

 end. The hardwood foreshaft is bulbous at the base where it is in- 

 serted into the bamboo shaft but tapers toward the distal end, which 

 is inset with a small leaf -shape iron point. The specimen is an old 

 type no longer produced. 



