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ANCIENT AND MODERN METHODS 



If Mr. Man's information be correct, then the tribes 

 inhabiting the Little Andaman practice the Mediterranean 

 release. In his work on the Andaman Islanders before 

 alluded to, the author says (p. 141) that the Jar'awa, or 

 the tribes which inhabit the Little Andaman and southern 

 portions of the Great Andaman, "adopt the plan usual 

 among ourselves of holding the nock of the arrow inside 

 the string by means of the middle joints of the fwre and 



Figs. 11 and 12. Mongolian release. 



middle fingers, and drawing the string with the same joints." 

 While the four releases thus far described may be con- 

 sidered successive modifications of each other, though I 

 do not mean to imply that they are so necessarily, the 

 release which we are about to examine is an entirely in- 

 dependent form, having no relation to the others. In this 

 release the string is drawn by the flexed thumb bent over 



