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Titre : Annual report of the Bureau of American ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian institution
Auteur : Bureau of American ethnology (Washington, D.C.). Auteur du texte
Éditeur : Government printing office (Washington)
Date d'édition : 1916
Contributeur : Powell, John Wesley (1834-1902). Directeur de publication
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Description : 1916
Description : 1916 (N38)-1917.
Description : Note : Index.
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paddlelike weapons are seen to vary from almost straight sides (fig. 58 b) to highly convex (c, e) and concave (/),even double concave (g) edges. The last mentioned may be highy ornamented with incised designs (GOE, pl. vi). Modifications of this paddle club can be employed for dance purposes by Ojana (GOE, pi. v, fig. i), Koroa (KG, 11,133), Makusi (pl. 37 A), Wapishana, and others. 153. Another form of club (pl. 39), the block or cubical type, of similar or perhaps even wider distribution than the former, is the mossi, or mushi, of the Arawak, the potu, butu, or aputu of the Carib (fig. 58 A). Manufactured from the hardest and heaviest woods procurable, it had square ends with sharp corners, thinned in the middle where it was wound round with strong cotton thread, to which a strong loop of the same material (woven into a band-sec. 53) was affixed. In the old days it would seem to have been occasionally provided with a sharpened celt inserted into a carefully eut pit, hollowed out on one of its sides, wherein it was fixed with karaman cement. The extraordinary statement of Stedman that the Indians used to fix the stone in the future club by sticking it in the tree while growing, where it soon became imbedded, when in due course the tree was eut, etc. (St, i, 397), has been repeated by Brett (Br, 134), Crévaux (Or, 16), and others. Modifications of this block form of club, but on a much smaller scale, and often with an incised decoration, are requisitioned on occasions of dance and festivity, perhaps also of cérémonial. Certain of the stone hatchets have been mentioned as fighting implements (PBA, 168, 174).
15e. The remaining type of Guiana, war club (pl. 37 B) approximates that of a dagger (fig. S8 i), and though met with by Schomburgk among the Makusi, is said by him to have been peculiar to the Maiongkong. Both Akawai and. Carib have told me that their forefathers were wont to use this weapon. It runs at one extremity to a sharp point, above which the club broadens more and more until it becomes again bluntly pointed above. The handie is toward the middle of the weapon. The object of the sharp point is to insert it in thé. ear and then drive it into the brain of the fallen foe (SR, i, 425). It was thus used as a club, a cutting weapon, and a bayonet. The constant companion of the Maiongkong, when he sits down or squats, he sticks it into the ground in front of him ( ScF, 238). The handle was overcast with cotton thread (sec. 43).