Handbook to the ethnographical collections . nd 106). NewCaledonian clubs are recognizable by the abrupt thickening of thehandle, and their shape, which is usually either mushroom-or pick-like (fig. 107). New Hebrides clubs are invariablyfurnished with a discoid stop at the Ijutt (fig. 108); those of theSolomons are often partly covered with plait-work (fig. 122). InNew Britain stone heads begin to appear (fig. 123), and these arealso found all over New Guinea (fig. 109) except at the extremesouth-oast end and the neighbouring islands (PI. VI). Short maceswith pyrites heads were formerly seen
Handbook to the ethnographical collections . nd 106). NewCaledonian clubs are recognizable by the abrupt thickening of thehandle, and their shape, which is usually either mushroom-or pick-like (fig. 107). New Hebrides clubs are invariablyfurnished with a discoid stop at the Ijutt (fig. 108); those of theSolomons are often partly covered with plait-work (fig. 122). InNew Britain stone heads begin to appear (fig. 123), and these arealso found all over New Guinea (fig. 109) except at the extremesouth-oast end and the neighbouring islands (PI. VI). Short maceswith pyrites heads were formerly seen in jxart of the SolomonIslands, but whether these were merely ceremonial or intendedfor actual use is uncertain. Of the spears (fig. 99), those of the Solomon Islands and NewHebrides, which are often furnished with ))one barbs, are the best;those of New Caledonia are usually pointed with a sting-ray spine,while tliose of the Admiralty have commonly an ()))sidian head(fig. 110): those from New Jjritain are often furnislied at the 128 OCRANIA. Fjg. 106.—Clulis fiiiin Fiji : tlic- two smallest are usod as niLssiles. THE PAPUASIANS 129 l)utt with a human armlione. Spears are hurled by means ofshort cords in New Caledonia, and in the south-west islands ofTorres Straits by means of the Australian pattern of throwing-stick. Slings are used inmost of the islands, and inthe New Hebrides bai-s ofcoral are hurled by bow, which is the chiefweapon of the Papuan tribes,is also found in the NewHebrides and Banks Islands,Santa Cruz and the Solo-mons, and as a hunting-weapon in the AdmiraltyIslands. Everywhere thebow is plain; the arrows varygreatly in pattern and num-ber and material of pointsand barbs, but possess thecommon feature of being un-feathered except in the NewHebrides. Bracers are wornto protect the left arm againstthe bow-string in the NewHebrides, Solomon Islands,and New Guinea ; these maybe simple forms of braceletor, in the two former lo-calities, a length of creeper
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