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Identifier: historyofmankind01ratz (find matches)
Title: The history of mankind
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Ratzel, Friedrich, 1844-1904 Butler, Arthur John, 1844-1910
Subjects: Ethnology Anthropology
Publisher: London, Macmillan and co., ltd. New York, The Macmillan co.
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
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D MICRONESIA. 4-5,6. 7,8.9- IO, II.12, 13- Obsidian javelin : Admiralty Is-lands. Paddle : Solomon Islands. Chiefs spear : New Caledonia. Mancatcher : New Guinea. Lances: New Britain. (Thehandleof 5 is made of bone, probablythat of the cassowary.) Arrows: Humboldt Bay. War mask : New Caledonia. Arrows: Humboldt Bay. Lances : New Hanover. (12 ofbamboo.) 14. Spear with point of cassowary bone : New Guinea. 15. Mace used in dances: Bougain- ville. 16. Sword-club : New Britain. 17. Club, handle covered with grass matting : Solomon Islands* 18. Obsidian javelin : Admiralty Is- lands. 19. Jade axe : New Caledonia. 20. Breast ornament : New Caledonia. 21. Necklace of cachalots teeth : Fiji. 22. Breast ornament: Humboldt Bay. 23. Prickly helmet: Kingsmill Is- lands.24,25,26. Masks: New Ireland. (25 usedas decoration of a temple.) 27. Mat with woven pattern : Mort- lock Island in the Carolines. 28. Calabash for betel-lime: Ad- miralty Islands. 29. Frontlet: New Guinea. 30. Cap : New Caledonia.
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Printed by the Bfbliosrra-pMsches Institut. Leipzig. WEAPONS AND UTENSILS FROI ELANESIA AND MICRONESIA. DAESS AND WEAPONS OF THE MELANESIANS 233 way must have arisen the musketshape for clubs and the like. Insome axes the blade is set at an anglewith a view to more convenient work-ing when hewing out the interior ofthe canoes. Fijian axes are in thePolynesian style, but not so large. Inthe New Hebrides and the Solomonswe have smaller wedge-shaped roundedstone hatchets, sometimes wider, some-times narrower, tending in one placeto the oval, in another to the triangularshape. In Isabel and San Christovalthe blades are from 2^ to 8 incheslong, of a greenish gray colour, tri-angular or tongue-shaped, with aground edge. The tongue and ovalshapes appear in an extreme form inXew Caledonia. For the broad andquite circular hatchets jade affordedthe material. Artistically pretty pat-terns are either stitched or woven intothe binding of the- handles. NewIreland has ceremonial axes withbeautifully

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  • booksubject:Ethnology
  • booksubject:Anthropology
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