Note 133 — Chapter III · THE WEAPONS OF THE AGE OF WOOD: THE BOOMERANG AND THE SWORD OF WOOD; OF STONE, AND OF WOOD AND STONE COMBINED.
Reading edition
The Godeffroy Collection has produced a huge Catalogue of 687 pages (Die ethnographisch-anthropologische Abtheilung des Museum Godeffroy in Hamburg, vol. i. 8vo (L. Friederichsen u. Co. 1881). It was shown to me by Dr. Graeffe, the naturalist often mentioned in ‘South Sea Bubbles, by the Earl and the Doctor.’ As a rule the Samoans had clubs and spears, but few Swords.