RovH] WEAPONS: HUNTING AND FIGHTING 171 
from the watershed of the Yapura, used both for hunting and fight- 
ing purposes. They possess a separate tip, though loosely affixed, 
and are made up into bundles of seven (sec. 762), their ends pro- 
tected in a common casing, but with separate divisions, as were seen 
to be the case with the poison arrows of the Siusi, ete. (ICG, 11,270). 
148. Harpoon spears.—The Warrau on the Waini, etc., employ a 
harpoon spear for the capture of the larger kinds of fish. The 
earliest account I can find of such a weapon is the following: A fine 
young fellow (a Warrau on the Haimara-cabura, a branch of the 
Moruca River) had a kind of javelin, the shaft of which was made 
of a strong reed, in one end of which was inserted a piece of hard- 
weed, forming the point. . . . He told me that it is used in striking 
the morocote and other large fish, fruit, or seeds, which they are fond 
of, being scattered on the still water while the Indian watches their 
rising, and kills them with an arrow or this kind of dart (FP4J, 43). 
he present-day article (fig. 57) is identical in construction with the 
atémo (sec. 142) save that the shaft of the latter is replaced by an 
8-foot or so length of ite leaf stalk, which is slit, contracted, and 
PUYALLUP MSULL UO tp 
Fie, 57.—Harpoon spear of the Warrau. 
tightly bound at either extremity. When iron is not available the 
barb is made of deer bone. [The estolica, a spear projected with a 
throwing stick or board, though met with in the Amazon district in 
close proximity (AC, 86-88; S-M, 1, 1024, etc.), does not seem to 
have entered the Guianas. | 
149. Among the Yahuna (Betoya stock) and other Indian tribes 
of the Apaporis certain primitive clubs are met with comparative 
frequency. They are heavy, knotty, natural wooden cudgels, about 
a meter long, to which a loop of palm thread or bark fiber is tied at 
the center. This loop is firmly attached to the right wrist, the 
weapon held with both hands, and the attacker, bending down, will, 
by thrusting the cudgel forward in a more or less horizontal posi- 
tion, repeatedly strike his opponent on the upper thigh or shin bone 
and so bring him to the ground, where he can be dispatched (KG, 
11, 287). 
150. In the Guianas proper there would seem to have been at least 
four different types of war club scattered throughout the country, 
but they are apparently fast falling into disuse, if they have not 
already done so. It was Schomburgk who said that each tribe had 
its particular shape, although for some unknown reason the shapes 
