. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. ages. The -weapons of Timor and of the Philippines are very similar, as might have been anticipated. The African spears show a great variety. Over the large portion of the continent iron is either plentiful or readily accessi- ble by means of the native traders. The metallurgic process is a direct one from the ore and the product is a steel. Weights, shapes, and sizes of the weapons dif- fer greatly. The Bongos of the Upper Nileir6 are skil
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. ages. The -weapons of Timor and of the Philippines are very similar, as might have been anticipated. The African spears show a great variety. Over the large portion of the continent iron is either plentiful or readily accessi- ble by means of the native traders. The metallurgic process is a direct one from the ore and the product is a steel. Weights, shapes, and sizes of the weapons dif- fer greatly. The Bongos of the Upper Nileir6 are skillful FlG- n».-2v*fon« of Timor. blacksmiths and make excellent lances, especially considering the crude character of their tools. The spears of the Niani- niams and Monbuttoos177 are of a hastate shape, and their weapons all have nn. 0/ the rMiippines. blood-grooves, which dis- tinguishes them from the weapons of the Bongo and Mittoo. The Man- ganji spear174 is sometimes made with a paddle or dibble at the end of the handle, and is weighted with iron rings. The spear of the Kanemboo infantry soldier of Borneo is 7 feet in length, and armed below the head with a num- ber of hook-shaped barbs. The Abys- sinian spear is seven feet long and has four grooved sides. It is used either as a pike or a javelin. The natives have also a way of throwing it at close quarters by letting the shaft pass through the hand and catching the butt-end. The bark of a young tree being removed, the wood is seasoned by fire, greased, then hung in the sun to obtain the desired color. The hippopotamus spear of the Zam- besi17'-' is a beam four or five feet long armed with a spear-head or hard-wood spike covered with poison. The spear is suspended from a forked polo by a cord, which, comin Fig 111.—Spears of Timor. down close 1TO Schweinfurth's "Africa," vol. «" IUd., vol. ii, p. 27. I7K Livingstone's " Zambesi," p'. 532. l7»Livingstone's Zambesi, p. 17; Bake
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