PRIMITIVE WARFARE[13] I (continued 2)
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47. Horn of the Rhinoceros. (Author’s Coll.)
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48. Skull and Tusks of the Walrus. (Author’s Coll.)
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49. Weapon of the Sword-Fish; scale ½ inch to a foot. (Author’s Coll.)
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50. Spear of the Narwhal; scale ½ inch to a foot. (Author’s Coll.)
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51. Section, showing part of the timber of the ship Fame, where it was pierced by the narwhal in the South Seas, through 2½-inch oak. (Mus. R. U. S. Inst.; presented by Lt. A. T. Tulloch, R.A.)
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52. Esquimaux Spear, from Greenland, armed with the spear of the narwhal. 1/50. (Mus. R. U. S. Inst.)
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53. Esquimaux Spear in the form of a fish, having fore-shaft composed of a narwhal-tusk, inserted so as to represent the tusk of the animal; scale ½ inch to a foot. (Author’s Coll.)
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54. Esquimaux Lance, pointed with a walrus-tooth. 1/20. (Mus. R. U. S. Inst.)
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55. Esquimaux Tomahawk or Pickaxe, headed with a walrus-tooth. 1/20. (Mus. R. U. S. Inst.)
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56. Arrow-head, probably from South America, headed with the point of a deer’s horn. (British Museum, Christy Collection.)
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57. War-club of the Iroquois, called Ga-ne-ú-ga-o-dus-ha or ‘Deer-horn War-Club.’ Lewis Morgan, League of the Iroquois (Rochester, N.Y., 1851), p. 363.
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58. Club of the North American Indians, with a point of iron. 1/20. (Mus. R. U. S. Inst.; presented by T. Hoblyn, Esq.)
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59. Arrow, from S. America, armed with the weapon of the ray, probably Trygon hystrix. ½. (Mus. R. U. S. Inst.)
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60. a. Spine of Balistes capriscus, Cuv., erect. Yarrell, British Fishes (2nd ed., London, 1841), vol. ii, p. 472. b. Horn of Cottus diceraus, Pall. Cuvier, Animal Kingdom (1827), s. v. c. Horn of Naseus fronticornis, Lac. Cuvier, l. c.
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61. Spear of the Limulus or ‘King Crab.’
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62. Arrow, armed with the spine of the Diodon. ¼. (Author’s Coll.)
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63. ‘Khandjar’ or Indian Dagger, composed of the horn of the buffalo, having the natural form and point. 1/10. (Author’s Coll.)
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64. ‘Khandjar’ of the same form, with metal blade and ivory handle. 1/10. (Author’s Coll.)
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65. ‘Khandjar’ of the same form, having both blade and handle of iron. The handle is ornamented with the figures of a bird and some small quadruped. 1/10. (Author’s Coll.)
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66. Dagger formed of the horn of the ‘sasin,’ or common antelope. 1/10. (Author’s Coll.)
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67. Dagger like fig. 66, but with the points armed with metal. 1/10 (Mus. R. U. S. Inst.)
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68. Dagger like figs. 66, 67, but composed entirely of metal, with a shield for the hand. Similar shields are sometimes attached to daggers like those in figs. 66, 67. 1/12. (Mus. R. U. S. Inst.)
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69. Weapon composed of the horn of the antelope; steel-pointed; supposed to be that used by the Fakirs in India. (Author’s Coll.)
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70. Sword formed of the serrated blade of the saw-fish from New Guinea. (Mus. R. U. S. Inst.)
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71-74. Weapons from the Pacific, edged with sharks’ teeth. The teeth near the point are placed points forward; the remainder with the points towards the handle. Two methods of fastening the teeth are shown: a. in grooves; b. lashed between two strips of wood. (Mus. R. U. S. Inst.)
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75. Implement from New Zealand, armed with sharks’ teeth. (British Museum.)
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76. Esquimaux Knife, from Davis Strait, armed with pieces of meteoric iron, (British Museum.)
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77. Knife, from Greenland, armed with pieces of iron along the edge. (British Museum, Christy Collection.)
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78-80. Mexican ‘Maquahuitl.’ Lord Kingsborough, Antiquities of Mexico (1830-48), vol. i (numerous examples on pl. x-xv: fig. 79 = No. 1478).
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81-82. Spear and Knife, from Australia, armed with pieces of obsidian, or rock-crystal. (Mus. R. U. S. Inst.)
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83. Arrow-point of bone, armed with a row of sharp flint flakes on each side. (Museum of Prof. Nilsson, at Lund, in Sweden.) Reduced to ½ from the figure in Wilde, l. c., ‘Animal Materials,’ p. 254.
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84. Arrow-point like fig. 83. (Copenhagen Museum.) Illustr. Cat. of the Copenhagen Museum.
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85. Arrow-point of hollow bone, from S. America, the hollow of the bone being filled with poison. (Mus. R. U. S. Inst.; Author’s Coll.)
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86. Dagger of an Italian Bravo, with grooves and holes to contain poison; the handle represents a monk in the act of supplication. (Author’s Coll.)
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87 a. Scottish Dirk, pierced with holes along the back and sides. Along the back of the blade runs a groove eight inches long, in which holes are pierced that communicate with lateral holes on the side of the blade. (Author’s Coll.)
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87 b. ‘Couteau-de-Chasse,’ with two grooves on each side near the back of the blade, which is pierced through with holes. (Author’s Coll.)
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88. Arrow-head, of iron, with a hole near the point for poison; from S. America. (Author’s Coll.)
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89. Sting of the Bee, serrated or multi-barbed: after F. Huber in Jardine’s Naturalist’s Library, Entomology vi. Bees (Edinb., 1840), p. 40.
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90. Point of Bushman’s Arrow, barbed with an iron head, which is constructed to come off in the wound. (Author’s Coll.)
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91. Malay Blowpipe-arrow, iron-headed; similarly constructed. ¼. (Author’s Coll.)
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92. Arrow of the wild tribes of Assam, copper-headed, and similarly constructed. ¼. (Author’s Coll.)
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93. Arrow-head of the Shoshones of North America, of flint; constructed to come off in the wound. Schoolcraft, l. c., vol. i. pp. 212-3, pl. lxxvi. 5.
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94. Arrow-point of the Macoushie Indians of S. America; similarly constructed. ¼. (Author’s Coll.; pres. by Rev. J. G. Wood.)
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95. Arrow-heads of flint, from the north of Ireland. ¼. (Author’s Coll.)
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96. Part of the Blade of an Italian Dagger, serrated and pierced. Full size. Meyrick (Skelton), l. c., vol. ii. pl. cxiii. 14.
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