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Title: The uncivilized races of men in all countries of the world; being a comprehensive account of their manners and customs, and of their physical, social, mental, moral and religious characteristics. By Rev. J. G. Wood... With new designs by Angas, Danby, Wolf, Zwecker... 1871
Year: 1871 (1870s)
Authors: Wood, John George, 1827-1889
Subjects: Ethnology. Manners and customs. Savages
Publisher: J. B. Burr and company
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
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ing of hisprowess, and of the use to which he will putthe body of his foe. But the Tongan, who never thinks ofboasting before or after battle, whose wea-pons are simple and unadorned, is so com-pletely the superior of the Fijian that hecould, if he chose, make himself the masterof the whole Fiji territory. We see thesame characteristic in several Eastern lands,in which the men are walking arsenals ofweapons inlaid with gold, silver, and pre-cious stones, and yet will take the first op-portunity of running away when there isa probability that their ornamental weaponswill be used in earnest. So the experienced anthropologist, assoon as he sees these beautifully carvedarms, decorated with the most delicate plu-mage, and painted with all the colors whichnative art can supply, at once makes up hismind that such weapons are more for showthan use, and that the makers would nothave expended such time and troubleupon them, if they had intended them toundergo the rough usage of actual war-fare.
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(8.) GUIANAN CLUBS. (See page 1239.) (4.) GUIANAN CRADLE. (See page 1247.) (1238) CHAPTER CXXXI. THE TRIBES OE GUIANA — Continued. WAR — SUPERSTITION. GrUIANAN CLUBS — THE SAPAKANA AND POTU — WARFARE—CANNIBALISM—THE SHELL MOUND ANDITS CONTENTS—RISE AND FALL OF THE CARIB TRIBE — BLOOD FEUDS—THE KANAIMA AND ITSRESULTS—A STRANGE SUPERSTITION — THE GUIANAN VAMPIRE — WAR WITH THE ARAWAKS —INGENIOUS STRATEGY — THE AMBUSH — THE FORT AND THE BOOM — CAPTURE OF THE CHIEF ANDEND OF THE WAR. We will now pass to their clubs, in which,as well as in the arrows, can be read thecharacteristics of their makers : some ofthem are wonderful examples of savage art.The specimens which are shown in an illus-tration on the preceding page are all drawnfrom examples in the Christy collection. Those on the right are examples of thekind of club which is called Sapakana. Theyare made of the heaviest and hardest woodwhich the native can find, and some of themare so large and heavy th

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