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... spear - head has no float , but is secured on board the canoe . The simplest form of fish - spear is a long sharp stick used in gigging fish in water - holes.157 The spears in the New Zealand department were all of wood . Some were ...
... spear - head has no float , but is secured on board the canoe . The simplest form of fish - spear is a long sharp stick used in gigging fish in water - holes.157 The spears in the New Zealand department were all of wood . Some were ...
Page 268
... spear - heads of obsidian , and axes of green jasper . FIG . 97. - Stone spear - heads , South Aus tralia . The lances found in the upper strata dur- ing the excavations at Hissarlik 161 were of a very hard black or green stone . The spear ...
... spear - heads of obsidian , and axes of green jasper . FIG . 97. - Stone spear - heads , South Aus tralia . The lances found in the upper strata dur- ing the excavations at Hissarlik 161 were of a very hard black or green stone . The spear ...
Page 272
... spear , does not seem to be in common use in the Orient . The Japanese have as many as 14 kinds of spears , 174 perhaps more . Fig . 109 is a three- pointed spear from Timor , shown in the collection from the Portuguese col- onies . It ...
... spear , does not seem to be in common use in the Orient . The Japanese have as many as 14 kinds of spears , 174 perhaps more . Fig . 109 is a three- pointed spear from Timor , shown in the collection from the Portuguese col- onies . It ...
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