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70. Sword formed of the serrated blade of the saw-fish from New
Guinea. (Mus. R. U. S. Inst.)

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71-74. Weapons from the Pacific, edged with sharks’ teeth. The
teeth near the point are placed points forward; the remainder with
the points towards the handle. Two methods of fastening the teeth
are shown: _a._ in grooves; _b._ lashed between two strips of wood.
(Mus. R. U. S. Inst.)

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75. Implement from New Zealand, armed with sharks’ teeth. (British
Museum.)

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76. Esquimaux Knife, from Davis Strait, armed with pieces of
meteoric iron, (British Museum.)

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77. Knife, from Greenland, armed with pieces of iron along the
edge. (British Museum, Christy Collection.)

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78-80. Mexican ‘Maquahuitl.’ Lord Kingsborough, _Antiquities of
Mexico_ (1830-48), vol. i (numerous examples on pl. x-xv: fig. 79 =
No. 1478).

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81-82. Spear and Knife, from Australia, armed with pieces of
obsidian, or rock-crystal. (Mus. R. U. S. Inst.)

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83. Arrow-point of bone, armed with a row of sharp flint flakes on
each side. (Museum of Prof. Nilsson, at Lund, in Sweden.) Reduced
to 1/2 from the figure in Wilde, l. c., ‘Animal Materials,’ p. 254.

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84. Arrow-point like fig. 83. (Copenhagen Museum.) _Illustr. Cat.
of the Copenhagen Museum._

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85. Arrow-point of hollow bone, from S. America, the hollow of the
bone being filled with poison. (Mus. R. U. S. Inst.; Author’s Coll.)

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86. Dagger of an Italian Bravo, with grooves and holes to contain
poison; the handle represents a monk in the act of supplication.
(Author’s Coll.)

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87 _a._ Scottish Dirk, pierced with holes along the back and sides.
Along the back of the blade runs a groove eight inches long, in
which holes are pierced that communicate with lateral holes on the
side of the blade. (Author’s Coll.)

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87 _b._ ‘Couteau-de-Chasse,’ with two grooves on each side near the
back of the blade, which is pierced through with holes. (Author’s
Coll.)

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88. Arrow-head, of iron, with a hole near the point for poison;
from S. America. (Author’s Coll.)

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89. Sting of the Bee, serrated or multi-barbed: after F. Huber in
_Jardine’s Naturalist’s Library_, Entomology vi. _Bees_ (Edinb.,
1840), p. 40.

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90. Point of Bushman’s Arrow, barbed with an iron head, which is
constructed to come off in the wound. (Author’s Coll.)

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91. Malay Blowpipe-arrow, iron-headed; similarly constructed. 1/4.
(Author’s Coll.)

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92. Arrow of the wild tribes of Assam, copper-headed, and similarly
constructed. 1/4. (Author’s Coll.)

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93. Arrow-head of the Shoshones of North America, of flint;
constructed to come off in the wound. Schoolcraft, l. c., vol. i.
pp. 212-3, pl. lxxvi. 5.

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94. Arrow-point of the Macoushie Indians of S. America; similarly
constructed. 1/4. (Author’s Coll.; pres. by Rev. J. G. Wood.)

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95. Arrow-heads of flint, from the north of Ireland. 1/4. (Author’s
Coll.)

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96. Part of the Blade of an Italian Dagger, serrated and pierced.
Full size. Meyrick (Skelton), l. c., vol. ii. pl. cxiii. 14.