THE EVOLUTION OF THE ARROW 
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It may be difficult to understand how these rude stone 
arrows could have penetrated the vital parts of a bulky beast, 
but primitive man must have been a muscular fellow, for it 
was a revelation to me on one occasion to see at the British 
Museum a human pelvis with a flint arrow imbedded in the 
Stone Arrow-heads showing Development op 
Barbing. S. Africa: (Peringuey.) 
bone of the arch ; it had evidently been shot into the buttock, 
had gone through the flesh and the point was protruding 
through the concave side of the pelvic arch. 
We now come to present-day weapons, and I propose to 
divide the inquiry into two parts, viz. the development 
of the head and the development of the butt. The most 
primitive form of head is that which appears in some of the 
arrows of the Congo pygmies. The shaft of the arrow is often 
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