EXPLANATION OF PLATE III. 



1. Simple bow from Little Andaman Island. 



2. Three-pointep wooden fish arrow, from 



Bumila Creek, Little Andaman. 

 :!. Fish arrow, foreshaft of wood hardened by 

 lire and pointed, shaft of Bambusa nana. 



4. Two-pointed wooden lish arrow, North Cinque 



Island. 



5. Simple bow from Rutland Island. 



6. 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. 



3. Three pig spears; iron heads seemed by seiz- 



ings of Anadendron paniculatum liber, 

 and ornamented with strips of yellow 

 I >eiidrobiuin bark. 

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

 PI. IV). 



12. Fish arrow with barbed iron head. 



13. Many pointed fish spear of wood. 

 14 and b">. Sigmoid bows used by the natives of 



South and Middle Andaman and the 

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

 Cyrena shell. 

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



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