. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. 222 SAVAGE WEAPONS AT THE CENTENNIAL EXHIBITION. It is jects fashioned in wood, exhibit the same style of ornamentation, as it must be called. The Argentine Bepublic sent a mace, which is shown at Fig of hard wood resembling- lignum vita', and is 48 inches long. It belonged to an Indian of the pampas. A spear eight feet long, of the same kind of wood and tapering to a point, Mas exhibited with it. The club of the Gran Chaco Indians26 of the
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. 222 SAVAGE WEAPONS AT THE CENTENNIAL EXHIBITION. It is jects fashioned in wood, exhibit the same style of ornamentation, as it must be called. The Argentine Bepublic sent a mace, which is shown at Fig of hard wood resembling- lignum vita', and is 48 inches long. It belonged to an Indian of the pampas. A spear eight feet long, of the same kind of wood and tapering to a point, Mas exhibited with it. The club of the Gran Chaco Indians26 of the La Plata region is square in section, larger towards each end, and is grasped in the middle. It is called a macana, and is used either as a hurling weapon or as a club at close quarters. The clubs of the Guiana Indians are maces of square section, or paddle-shaped with some- what sharp edges. The handles are em- broidered with cotton string, some in a very ornamental manner. The Uaupe Indians of the Amazon26 also use carved wooden clubs. We come now to a class of clubs in which a stone is mounted upon a withe or other kind of handle to form a maul or hammer. We do not in the present article consider those which have sharp edges, and are de- signed to form axes and adzes. They will Fl( be grouped separately. Fig. 17 is about as primitive an affair as can well be devised. It isa shell-headed club from a shell-heap on Saint John's River, Florida. The head is a Pyrula, and the specimen is peculiar in this, that though ancient it still has the remains of the original handle. In connection with this method of mount- ing, by a perforated head through which the helve is thrust, mention may be made of hammer stones, sometimes known as helved wedges, simi- larly handled, and SheU I adt delubJromaFloridaeheU-heap.—National Museum. \\],\i.]t have been hurl- ing axes. They are more frequent in Europe than in America. Some Fig. is.—Maidah earvi d war-club.— Nat in » a I M a - HI II I
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