. Andean culture history. Incas; Indians of South America. 44 ANDKAX cn/rCKi; HISTORY wuodi'ii paddle cluljs Avilh sharpened ed^'es, spears, and blow^uns. The Guiana blowgun was made of a section of banil)oo tnbin«; covered with pitch and bound tii>htly. The upper Amazon blowgun con- sisted of two pieces of chonta palm, grooved on the inside for the bore, and bound together with bast (Fig. 6). The mouthpiece was of carved ?lsS Fig. G. Yagua scene showing use of blowgun. Courtesy of Dr. Paul Fejos. The blowguns were about eight feet long. The standard equipment for the blowgun include
. Andean culture history. Incas; Indians of South America. 44 ANDKAX cn/rCKi; HISTORY wuodi'ii paddle cluljs Avilh sharpened ed^'es, spears, and blow^uns. The Guiana blowgun was made of a section of banil)oo tnbin«; covered with pitch and bound tii>htly. The upper Amazon blowgun con- sisted of two pieces of chonta palm, grooved on the inside for the bore, and bound together with bast (Fig. 6). The mouthpiece was of carved ?lsS Fig. G. Yagua scene showing use of blowgun. Courtesy of Dr. Paul Fejos. The blowguns were about eight feet long. The standard equipment for the blowgun included a bamboo quiver for the supply of split palm darts; a gourd full of tree cotton to be used as a wadding on one end of the dart; the jaw of a piranha fish, the teeth of which are sharp enough to cut a groove near. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Bennett, Wendell Clark, 1905-1953; Bird, Junius Bouton, 1907-1982. New York [American Museum of Natural History]
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