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- Title: Throwing-sticks in the National Museum
- Author : Otis T. Mason
- Release Date : January 01, 1908
- Genre: Art & Architecture,Books,Arts & Entertainment,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 927 KB
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The Col. Lane Fox tells us there are three areas of the throwing-stick: Australia, where it is simply an elongated spindle with a hook at the end; the country of the Conibos and the Purus, on the Upper Amazon, where the implement resembles that of the Australians, and the hyperborean regions of North America. The Greenland throwing-stick is a long, flat trapezoid, slightly ridged along the back. When the hunter has taken his throwing-stick in his hand he lays his harpoon shaft upon it so that the pegs will fall in the two little holes of the stick. By a sudden jerk of his hand the harpoon is thrown forward and released, the pegs drawing out of the holes in the stick. At the front end of the throwing-stick a narrow piece of ivory is pegged to prevent splitting. As before intimated, this type of throwing-stick is radically different from all others in its adjustment to the pegs on the heavy harpoon. In all other examples in the world the hook or spur is on the stick and not on the weapon.
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