Chambers's Miscellany of Instructive & Entertaining Tracts
Chambers's Miscellany of Instructive & Entertaining Tracts

Author: Anonymous

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2023-05-05

Total Pages: 518

ISBN-13: 338219368X

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1872. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

Primitive Weapons Miscellany
Primitive Weapons Miscellany

Author: Frank G. Speck

Publisher:

Published: 2012-09-01

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 9781616461379

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Primitive Weapons Miscellany collects seven early papers on primitive weapons like boomerangs, harpoons, slings, and blowguns, taken primarily from anthropological journals. These papers show examples of the weapons, and describe their use in hunting prey. This volume includes facsimile reprints of The Cane Blowgun in Catawba and Southeastern Ethnology (Frank G. Speck), Boomerangs (Gilbert T. Walker), Australian Throwing Sticks, Throwing-Clubs, and Boomerangs (D. S. Davidson), Distribution and Use of Slings in Pre-Columbian America . . . (Philip Ainsworth Means), Sling Contrivances for Projectile Weapons (F. Krause), Throwing Sticks in the National Museum (Otis T. Mason), and Aboriginal American Harpoons (Otis T. Mason).