Anthropos: Anthropos, 32.1937

Anthropos, 32.1937

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Structure Type:: Journal

Works URN (URL):: https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:11-714789

URN:: urn:nbn:de:kobv:11-714789

Persistent identifier:: BV041701500

Title:: Anthropos

Sub Title:: internationale Zeitschrift für Völker- u. Sprachenkunde

Other Titles:: Anthropos

Place of Publication:: Fribourg

Publisher:: Ed. St. Paul, Anthropos-Institut

Year of Publication:: 1906

Collection:: Journals and Newspapers > Journals of Ethnology

Domain:: Social and cultural anthropology > General overview

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Structure Type:: Journal Volume

Works URN (URL):: https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:11-709549

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Persistent identifier:: DE-11-001871392

Title:: Anthropos, 32.1937

Year of Publication:: 1937

Call Number:: LA 1118-32

Collection:: Journals and Newspapers > Journals of Ethnology

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Structure Type:: Journal Issue

Title:: Bd. 32, 1937, Heft 5, 6

Collection:: Journals and Newspapers > Journals of Ethnology

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Structure Type:: Journal Article

Title:: Negritos of Eastern Luzon

Other person:: Vanoverbergh, Morice

Collection:: Journals and Newspapers > Journals of Ethnology

Negritos of Eastern Luzon. 925 the coast buy the staves from those who live inland, but they roll their own strings, which are made from the bark of a shrub or small tree called ademme. The string is attached to the stave in the same way as with the Negritos I met elsewhere, but here the hunter stands still when he shoots his arrow (icf. Plate 10). Whenever a wild boar or a deer is caught, a small notch is made on the stave of the bow which was instrumental in killing the animal in question. At Calabgan (Cas.) I repeatedly heard about Negritos who lost their arrows during hunting expeditions. At Casiguran, the arrows are of two kinds: the ordinary pana and the balawit. The ordinary pana has an iron point, either fixed or detachable and provided with a string. The Negritos manufacture these points by flattening large nails, pieces of a hoop, &c., with the help of a stone or a hammer, and whetting them on a stone. They are never tempered, and there are no pro fessional blacksmiths among the Pygmies. The shaft of the pana mostly consists in a cane of bamboo grass. An ordinary pana measures approximately 3 1 / 4 ft., 8 ms. for the point and 7 ins. for the fathers {cf. fig. 15). The balawit has an iron point, usually detachable, and always provided with two barbs and a kind of forked tail. Actually these arrows are bought from the Ilongot among whom there are experienced blacksmiths 2 . The shaft of the balawit consists of two parts: the shaft proper and the foreshaft. The latter is much more slender than the shaft proper, in which it is fixed at one end, while at the other end it is stuck into the iron point; besides, it is sligthly thinned out at the middle, where the string of the detachable point is wound around. The shaft proper is made from the wood of the dalinideng-tree, the foreshaft from that of the kamonihg (Murraya exotica, L.). A typical balawit measures approximately 3 2 / 3 ft. {cf. figs. 16 & 17): the point, 4 r [‘ 2 ins.; the feathers about 10 ins.; the breadth of the point varies between 3 / 4 and 1 J 2 in.; the forked tail projects about 2 ins. outward. Both, the pana and the balawit are provided with three half feathers. The feathers of the hornbill seem to be most esteemed. Arrow shafts are very often profusely decorated: with the end of a small knife, the Negritos either make incisions on the shaft, keeping the latter in a fixed position, or apply the point of the knife to the shaft, turning the latter; after this, spittle and soot are smeared over the decorated parts, the soot cleaving to the scraped parts, not to the rest {cf. fig. 18). 2. Fishing. At Casiguran and at Baler, the arrow used for fishing consists in a section of thick wire, pointed at one end and forked at the other. The Casiguran fishing bow is smaller than the one used for hunting purposes: its stave is made of bamboo, and its string is merely another piece of wire. At Baler, 2 Considering the clumsiness of the Ilongot bow, one is led to surmise that they borrowed the use of bows and arrows from the Negritos and afterwards improved upon the manufacture of the latter.

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