. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. 268 SAVAGE WEAPONS AT THE CENTENNIAL EXHIBITION. Fig. 97.— Ston. spear-heads, South Aus- tralia. with gum. The Mexican spears were pointed with obsidian. The ob- sidian spear-heads of the Papuans excited the surprise of Sckouten, an early navigator in those seas; he remarks that they had "long staves with very long, sharp things at the ends thereof, which, as we thought, were flnnes of black ;160 The aborigines of the Canar
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. 268 SAVAGE WEAPONS AT THE CENTENNIAL EXHIBITION. Fig. 97.— Ston. spear-heads, South Aus- tralia. with gum. The Mexican spears were pointed with obsidian. The ob- sidian spear-heads of the Papuans excited the surprise of Sckouten, an early navigator in those seas; he remarks that they had "long staves with very long, sharp things at the ends thereof, which, as we thought, were flnnes of black ;160 The aborigines of the Canaries, a race of Af- rican origiu, when first discovered, used hatchets, knives, lancets, and spearheads of obsidian, and axes of green jasper. The lances found in the upper strata dur- ing the excavations at Ilissarlik161 were of a very hard black or green stone. The spear of the Northern American Indian was for- merly of stone or flint, but is now of We may refer in a single group to those spears which are tipped with animal material, bone, horn, shell, shark's teeth, claws of beasts and birds (such as of the kangaroo, cassowary, or emu), and the tail of the sting-ray. In the times of Her- odotus and Strabo, African spears were headed with the sharpened horns of antelopes,1C;i and the practice still ob- * The Canary Isl- anders, when discovered, in the fourteentli century, had spears and digging-sticks tipped with PIG. w.—Wooden Fig. 98 Shows fi*h-*pear. ^ Ma - Fig. 98.—Bone spear-heads and hook, Greenland. two Iv a i i\ k Columbia. spear-heads and a hook of bone, exhibited in the Greenland section of the Danish department. The upper one is cut down so as to leave barbs. The next beneath it has an iron tip riveted to the bone. The lower ex- ample is a bone hook about L> inches across. Barbed harpoons of bone, from a Scanian bog, Sweden, from a cave in Perigord, and from Terra del Fuego, are shown in Xilson's "Stone ;166 Purchas
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