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stab the lower leg muscles. Many hill tribes nightly place small 

 poisoned slips of bamboo, stuck freely with the points uppermost 

 about the paths near villages. These weapons are known locally 

 as panjis or puas. Museum Cat. No.' 257720 includes one lot of 

 bamboo sticks such as are placed by the Moro of the Lake Lanao 

 region in pits and deadfalls to wound or to kill their enemies. 

 These sticks were taken from a pitfall placed across a forest trail; 

 they average from 52 centimeters (20 inches) to 62.4 centimeters 

 (24 inches) in length. Collected by Chaplain Joseph Clemens, 

 United States xirmy. 



Short sections of palmwood or more often of bamboo, are set up 

 in runways of animals and at river fords to pierce the feet of animals 

 so that they will become easy victims to the hunter. The use of 

 such weapons known as " suga " to the Kalinga of the Mountain 

 Province, and as " luk-dun " to the Ibilao is known also to the Apiao, 

 Negritos, Igorot, Moro, and the Ifugao. The splinters are tapered 

 at both ends and have incised tribal markings along the lateral 

 surfaces. 



Length of splinters, 52.4 centimeters (20.6 inches) ; diameter at 

 center, 1 centimeter (0.4 inch). Collected by D. B. Mackie. Cat. 

 No. 292498, U.S.N.M. 



An extract from the diary of Don G. Galvey, in command of 

 the forces for the suppression of contraband trade, as published in 

 "Informe Sobre el Estado de las Islas Filipinas en 1842" relates 

 how a Spanish expedition following the bed of the Aringay River 

 encountered armed Igorot forces who had protected themselves 

 against the advance of the Spanish by inserting in the trail leading 

 to their country numbers of very sharp-pointed pieces of bamboo, 

 and some of palma hrava (Corypha minor) ^ driven into the ground, 

 and with deep pitfalls covered with grass and furnished with 

 bamboo spears in the center. There was also another kind of trap, 

 called " balitil " by the " pagans," which is made by placing two 

 drawn bows with arrows ready to let fly concealed in the high 

 cogon grass, one at each side of the trail. From these bows a small 

 and well concealed string leads to the path, and when this string 

 is trodden on, the two arrows fly off with such force as to pass 

 easily through a carabao. Of these arrows, some are aimed so as to 

 hit the body, others the legs. 



A similar invention is also employed in the capture of deer and 

 other game by various peoples throughout Malaysia. The trap is 

 usually placed in an animal runway that is so narroAv and walled 

 in with underbrush as to confine the animal to the pathway where 

 the trap is set. The trap usually consists of a string of rattan 

 placed across the pathway which the animal strikes. A spear 

 resting on a forked support having a strong spring of flexible wood 



