PRIMITIVE WEAPONS AND AHMOR OP THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS 61 



while the completed darts throu<:h handling have nearly all lost 

 the barbed head. The poison spreader is a spatula cut from bam- 

 boo and is 28.5 centimeters (11.2 inches) long. The substance used 

 for the bases of the darts is the stem of some grasslike plant. In 

 the hollow base of the quiver is stored the dannnar gum used to 

 polish the shafts of the darts. 



Collected by Gov. E. Y. Miller. (PI. 1.) Cat. No. 232289, 

 U.S.N.M. 



Blowgun^ Tinitianos or Batak., Palawan Island. — This weapon is 

 made of two long joint sections of cana hoho and is decorated at the 

 proximal end section with parallel burned lines interspersed with 

 etching in hour-glass figures. Mouthpiece end is hooped with rattan 

 and is covered with beeswax. The muzzle is also covered with bees- 

 wax. The lining consists of two joints of cane accurately fitted to 

 the tube which acts as a jacket to keep the lining straight. The outer 

 tube is hooped with four bands of bamboo. 



Length of tube, 218.4 centimeters (84 inches) ; diameter of bore, 

 1.1 centimeters (0.4 inch). Collected by Gov. E. Y. Miller. Cat. 

 No. 232292, U.S.N.M. 



Bloicgun^ Moro., Mindanao. — The tube is of bamboo lined with 

 another tube of smaller caliber. Similar tubes are kept straight by 

 a cover of vertical splints of bamboo applied edge to edge the entire 

 length of the tube and held by a continuous wrapping of rattan 

 strip. The mouth end is covered with a wooden tube, also lined with 

 bamboo, fitted to the surface of the lining tube. At the muzzle end 

 two sights are secured by a lashing of rattan, resembling in this 

 respect the blowgun of the Dyak. 



Length, 241.8 centimeters (93 inches) ; diameter of inner tube, 

 1 centimeter (0.4 inch). 



The dart operated in the blowgam is a strip of bamboo formed 

 into a triangular head at the forward end. To the proximal or 

 ta[)ered small end is fitted a cone of pith held in place by a wrapping 

 of fine lashing fiber at the junction of the pith and shaft. The 

 points of the dart are stuck into a cylinder of pith to protect them. 



Length, 4G centinu'ters (18.1 inches) ; length of head, .") centimeters 

 (2 inches) ; length of pith, 3.5 centimeters (1.4 inches) ; number of 

 darts, 15. Collected by Col. Frank H. Hilder. (PI. 1.) Cat. No. 

 216838, U.S.N.M. 



As the blowgun is noiseless, a poisoned missile is especially effective 

 in hunting game where a stealthy approach is not easily secured, as 

 in the hunting of birds, monkeys, and other arboreal game. Dr. E. 

 R. Hodge saw a native of Angeles, Pampanga Province, Luzon, using 

 ii long plain blowgun for killing birds. At this point, less than 50 

 miles from Manila, it is impossible that natives found themselves 



