EXPLANATION OF PLATP: HI. 



1 . Simple bow from Little Andaman Island. 



2. Three-pointep wooden fish arrow, from 



Bumila Creek, Little Andaman. 



3. Fish arrow, foreshaft of wood hardenetl by 



tire and pointed, shaft of Bdmhnaa nana. 



4. Two-pointed wooden fish arrow. North Cinque 



Island. 



5. Simple bow from Rutland Island. 

 (), 7. Fish arrows, foreshafts pointed with wire 



sharpened at each end, extending ob- 

 liquely backward to form a barb, the 

 seizings protected by coating of red wax. 



8. Three pig spears; iron heads secured by seiz- 



ings of Anadendron paniculatum fiber, 

 and ornamented with strips of yellow 

 Dendrobium bark. 



9, 10, 11. Harpoon arrows' for killing pigs (see 



PI. IV). 



12. Fish arrow with l)arbed iron head. 



13. Many j)ointed fish spear of wood. 

 14 and 15. Sigmoid bows used by the natives of 



South and Middle Andaman and the 

 "Archipelago," ornamented with lines of X-shaped incisions 

 Cyrena shell. 

 16, 17. Sigmoid bows used by natives of North Andaman. 



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