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Tecunas. Still, (he latter also mention a tj^roove or a cross piece, 

 and isolated examples are found amonjif old Indians of these tribes, 

 Avlu) use theui in lishini^. The tyi)e of this class is not yet determined. 



The second _iii'()U|) embraces a type of which two examples wcri' 

 found in huacas, at Manizales, in soutliern Antioquia, now in tiie 

 Copenhagen Museum.^ They have the inner end thin and Hat. with 

 broad center piece as grip, in which is the finger hole and i)ointed end. 

 'I'he outer end is like a staff, and terminates in a knob with a scroll, 

 into the uppei- surface of which a short, narrow groove is cut for the 

 insertion of the hook (missing). A band passing across this held the 

 hook still more finnly « (see p\. iv, figs. 43a and 43b). This, accord- 

 ing to Bahnson, is the type of the Cauca spear sling. Uhle suggests 

 that sling sticks with a groove probably existed in the Cauca Val- 

 lev, and were in use among the Cauca tribes, and certainly in 

 Antiocpiia, in the Aburra Valley opposite (according to Cieca, Rob- 

 h'do), to the south in Anna (according to Cie^a), in the district of 

 Ori, Cartama (on the left bank of the Cauca opposite Anna), Pozo 

 to the south, among certain peoples related to the population of 

 Anna (according to Robledo), Quimbaya, opposite Carthage (accord- 

 ing to Ciega), and among the Pantagora tribes, on the upper Cauca 

 and Magdalenian valley (according to Piedratuta) ; also by the Paez 

 in the mountainous countries between these two rivers.'' 



In the third group the hole for the forefinger is placed in a space 

 adjoining the grip. The shaft is flat like a ruler, broadish at each 

 end and narrower in the midle. The hole for the forefinger, on the 

 back, is between two cross bars. A small groove is supposed to have 

 existed in some examples. The hook for the spear end is a tooth- 

 shaped bone attached to the extreme end of the shaft (see pi. iv, 

 fig. 44). In former times it was emploj^ed among the Purupurus 

 (two examples in Vienna), Canamaris (a few examples still used 

 in fish and turtle catching on the Jurua River in 1867 were en- 

 countered by Chandless), and by the Paumaris on the Upper Purus.*" 

 The fourth subclass is still in use. The shaft is a delicate rod (on 

 the Araguaya it is angular in section), with broad flat handle in- 

 curved on both sides. Near the place where the grip changes into 

 the shaft is a hole for the forefinger. Toward the upper end the 

 shaft tajiers to a point, where is lashed obliquely a small hook of 

 wood or. among the Karaya, of bone (see pi. iv, fig. 45). It 

 formerly ser\'ed as a fighting weapon only, but is now mostly used 

 in sport, and as such is very popular. The spear sling dance, called 

 " yauari,'' also shows this, in which the wounding and death of a 



a According to Bahnson ; Intern. Arch. 11, pp. 217-227. 



6 All of these statements by Uhle: :Mitth. Wiener Anthrop. Gesellschaft, 

 XVII, pp. 107-114. 



c Ehrenreich : Beitriige zur Volkerkunde Brasiliens, p. 51. 



