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    Throwing-sticks in the National Museum Third Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1883-'84, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1890, pages 279-289
    Throwing-sticks in the National Museum Third Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1883-'84, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1890, pages 279-289
    Throwing-sticks in the National Museum Third Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1883-'84, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1890, pages 279-289
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    Throwing-sticks in the National Museum Third Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1883-'84, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1890, pages 279-289

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      Throwing-sticks in the National Museum Third Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1883-'84, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1890, pages 279-289 - Otis Tufton Mason

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      Title: Throwing-sticks in the National Museum

      Third Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the

      Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1883-'84,

      Government Printing Office, Washington, 1890, pages 279-289

      Author: Otis T. Mason

      Release Date: January 25, 2006 [EBook #17606]

      Language: English

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      SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION.

      UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM.

      THROWING-STICKS IN THE NATIONAL

      MUSEUM.

      OTIS T. MASON,

      Curator of the Department of Ethnology

      From the Report of the Smithsonian Institution, 1883-'84,

      Part II, pages 279-289, and plates I-XVII

      WASHINGTON:

      GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE.

      1890.

      I.—THROWING-STICKS IN THE NATIONAL MUSEUM.

      By Otis T. Mason.

      Col. Lane Fox tells us there are three areas of the throwing-stick: Australia, where it is simply an elongated spindle with a hook at the end; the country of the Conibos and the Purus, on the Upper Amazon, where the implement resembles that of the Australians, and the hyperborean regions of North America.

      It is of this last group that we shall now speak, since the National Museum possesses only two specimens from the first-named area and none whatever from the second.

      The researches and collections of Bessels, Turner, Boas, Hall, Mintzner, Kennicott, Ray, Murdoch, Nelson, Herendeen, and Dall, to all of whom I acknowledge my obligations, enable me to compare widely separated regions of the hyperborean area, and to distinguish these regions by the details in the structure of the throwing-stick.

      The method of holding the throwing-stick is indicated in Fig. 1 by a drawing of H.W. Elliott. The Eskimo is just in the act of launching the light seal harpoon. The barbed point will fasten itself into the animal, detach itself from the ivory foreshaft, and unwind the rawhide or sinew line, which is securely tied to both ends of the light wooden shaft by a martingale device. The heavy ivory foreshaft will cause the shaft to assume an upright position in the water, and the whole will act as a drag to impede the progress of the game. The same idea of impeding progress and of retrieving is carried out by a multitude of devices not necessary to mention here.

      The Eskimo spend much time in their skin kyaks, from which it would be difficult to launch an arrow from a bow, or a harpoon from the unsteady, cold, and greasy hand. This device of the throwing-stick, therefore, is the substitute for the bow or

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