. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. _^o: J f? for u, Text-fig. 1.—Foreshaft of modern Bushman arrow, a, end of reed shaft; b, reed collar. like point, by the action of rubbing. Mr. Lowe has mentioned these points in his Smithfield paper. They appear to be in every way identical with the bone arrow-points used by the present-day Bush- men of South-west Africa, the Kalahari and Angola, which may therefore be shortly described. The arrow-head consists of three parts, measuring some 5 inches over all (13 cm.). The foremost part co
. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. _^o: J f? for u, Text-fig. 1.—Foreshaft of modern Bushman arrow, a, end of reed shaft; b, reed collar. like point, by the action of rubbing. Mr. Lowe has mentioned these points in his Smithfield paper. They appear to be in every way identical with the bone arrow-points used by the present-day Bush- men of South-west Africa, the Kalahari and Angola, which may therefore be shortly described. The arrow-head consists of three parts, measuring some 5 inches over all (13 cm.). The foremost part consists of the point, a splinter of bone rounded, and sharpened at the forward end, measuring about 7 cm. in length by 4 mm. at its greatest thickness. The butt, which is squared off, is bound into a reed collar, and rests directly against the forward point of the link- shaft, which is also bound into the reed collar. The collar usually measures 15 mm. in length by 7 mm. in diameter. The link-shaft consists of a rounded splinter of bone, pointed at each end, and measuring some 6 cm. in length by 1 cm. in thickness. The hinder end is inserted into the reed shaft of the arrow, which measures. 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 South African Museum. Cape Town : The Museum
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