Ojeda, during his famous voyage to Carthagena, found the warlike Caribs wielding great Swords of palm wood, and the women ‘throwing a species of lance called Azagay.’ General Pitt-Rivers’ collection has a fine flat Club-Sword, five feet two inches long, straight and oval pointed, from Endeavour River, Queensland, and a smaller article, about three feet, with a longer handle, from Australia. Barrow River, Queensland, has supplied him with a half-curved wooden blade five feet long.
Fig. 52.—Samoan Club
(Godeffroy Collection).
Fig. 53.—Wooden Sabre.
Fig. 54.—Wooden Chopper.
Fig. 55.—Knife (Wood),
from Vanna Lava.
THE WOODEN SWORD.