Bladed Warclubs From British Guiana
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These are used by the Guiana Indians like the tomahawk by the Cherokees, on which, besides other hiero- glyphical figures, they often carve the number of persons slain in battle. The INDIAN NOTES BLADED WARCLUBS manner of fixing the stone in the club or apootoo is by sticking it in the tree while it is yet growing, where it soon becomes so fast that it cannot be forced out: after which the wood is cut, and shaped according to fancy. " On the plate opposite page 406 Sted- man illustrates one of ...these clubs with a stone blade which we here reproduce as fig. 2.
Warclubs with stone blades were also formerly in use among the Indians of French Guiana, for Barrere illustrates a specimen which shows a tau- shaped blade mounted in a long, slender, round handle, and writes (p. 174), " Ordi- nairement c'est le Capitaine, avec les principaux & toute le jeunesse, qui marchant en corps d'armee. Bein munis de leurs arcs, filches, boutous, haches de pierre, & autres instru- mens de guerre. " The illus- tration of a mounted stone axe FIG.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
These are used by the Guiana Indians like the tomahawk by the Cherokees, on which, besides other hiero- glyphical figures, they often carve the number of persons slain in battle. The INDIAN NOTES BLADED WARCLUBS manner of fixing the stone in the club or apootoo is by sticking it in the tree while it is yet growing, where it soon becomes so fast that it cannot be forced out: after which the wood is cut, and shaped according to fancy. " On the plate opposite page 406 Sted- man illustrates one of ...these clubs with a stone blade which we here reproduce as fig. 2.
Warclubs with stone blades were also formerly in use among the Indians of French Guiana, for Barrere illustrates a specimen which shows a tau- shaped blade mounted in a long, slender, round handle, and writes (p. 174), " Ordi- nairement c'est le Capitaine, avec les principaux & toute le jeunesse, qui marchant en corps d'armee. Bein munis de leurs arcs, filches, boutous, haches de pierre, & autres instru- mens de guerre. " The illus- tration of a mounted stone axe FIG.
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