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Lentrth of arrow, 103 centimeters (40 inches). Collected by Maj. 

 H. G. Lyon, United States Army. (PI. 4, No. 3.) Cat. No. 275747, 

 U.S.N.M. 



Arroio, Bikol^ southern Luzon. — The shaft is of bamboo and is 

 wrapped at each end with pitched abaca fiber. The foreshaft is 

 made of palm wood, bulbous at base and tapering toward distal end, 

 where it is socketed into the neck of a triangularly pointed bamboo 

 head. The arrowhead is discolored with a poisonous preiDaration 

 covering it. 



Length of arrow shaftment, 104 centimeters (40 inches). Col- 

 lected by Gen. James W. Bell, United States Army. (PI. 3, No. 3.) 

 Cat. No. 209356, U.S.N.M. 



Cane and palm wood arrows, Moros, Boac, Mindanao. — Shafts 

 consist one of cane and the other of bamboo; they are truncated at 

 proximal end, unfeathered, and are not wrapped except at distal end, 

 where a short wrapping of rattan secures the hardwood foreshaft 

 which is at the same time an extension of the arrowhead. The head 

 is fashioned of cocoa palm wood and is abruptly truncated. 



Length of arrow, 87 centimeters (33.5 inches). Collected by Maj. 

 E. L. Hawkes (PI. 3, No. 3.) Cat. No. 210313, U.S.N.M. 



Baniboo and wood compound arrows, Bagoho of Mindanao and 

 Negritos of Luzon. — Compound shafts are formed of bamboo. The 

 Negrito arrow, Cat. No. 306681, U.S.N.M., is feathered while the 

 Bagobo arrow. Cat. No. 286266, U.S.N.M., is not feathered. The for- 

 mer type has the characteristic notched or grooved nock of the Ne- 

 grito missile, while the latter is abruptly truncated at the nock. 

 Feathering of Negrito arrows is always crude and not especially 

 adapted to the diminishing of v.-ind resistance. The quill is slit open 

 from the base; one segment is removed part of the distance while 

 the remaining segment is waxed with a beeswax preparation. It is 

 placed flat against the arrow shaft and is wrapped with fibrous bark 

 and over that with a layer of bejuco splints; the body of the feather 

 is confined only at base and at tip where there is another wrapping 

 of fiber. These Negrito and Bagobo arrows each liave a compound 

 head of bamboo or wood, but the mode of attachment differs in each. 



The Bagobo arrowhead is made of two triangularly sharpened 

 sections of bamboo. These sections have two series of bilateral barbs 

 and a long triangular point. A long tapered neck constriction serves 

 as a tang; it is inserted into the i)roximal end of the shaft and is 

 wrapped with a winding of rattan. A small piece of cane has been 

 placed between the two prongs so that they stand about 1 centimeter 

 apart at their tip. The Negrito compound arrowhead is composed 

 of three pronged points, each triangular in section, plain on the out- 

 side but barbed with several series of lateral barbs at each of the in- 



