. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. SAVAGE WEAPONS AT THE CENTENNIAL EXHIBITION. 277. butt of the arrow. The middle of the arrow and the handle of the pal- lida are held in the right hand, and the arrow is projected as from a sling. The natives are very skillful with it. The throwing-boardx used by the Northwestern Eskimo and Indians are shown in Fig. 120. They resemble the spear-casters (xu iatla- tli) used by the Aztecs at the time of the Span- ish COntlUeSt. On the Fig. 11
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. SAVAGE WEAPONS AT THE CENTENNIAL EXHIBITION. 277. butt of the arrow. The middle of the arrow and the handle of the pal- lida are held in the right hand, and the arrow is projected as from a sling. The natives are very skillful with it. The throwing-boardx used by the Northwestern Eskimo and Indians are shown in Fig. 120. They resemble the spear-casters (xu iatla- tli) used by the Aztecs at the time of the Span- ish COntlUeSt. On the Fig. 11^-—Australian throwing-stick. mural monuments of Mexico the gods are generally represented as using the stick to throw the javelin. The Mexican stick most resembles the upper one in Fig. 118. Some other Eskimo throwing-sticks have pro- jections against which the butt of the spear is placed; and others (see the lower in the figure) have holes for the tail end of the spear. The Romans used the amentum (<;/'. habena), a thong fastened at the center of gravity of the javelin to hurl the weapon. It is mentioned by Livy and Ovid. By giving the thong a few turns around the shaft a ro- tary motion could be imparted to the javelin in throwing. The ansa of the ansa- tahasta was a sem- icircular strap- handle to a spear, like the bow on a sword-hilt. The Fig. 120. -Throwing-boards of Northwestern Eskimo. aclisof theancient Osci was a massive spear like a harpoon, with an attached line for recov- ering it. The natives of New Caledonia have a javelin 15 feet long, which is discharged by a plaited cord (ounep) attached a little behind the middle of the spear. This ounep (otherwise called sipp), answering to the ami ..• turn of the ancients, but superior thereto, is a plaited cord made of com- bined coir liber and fish-skin; it has a knot at one end and is worked into a loop at the other. It is wound around the spear-shaft so as to give it a rotary motion in When a spear is
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