129 THE AFRICAN THROWING KNIFE. By Ernest $S. Tromas. Taxis note embodies the results of an attempt to collect all available examples of the throwing knife and correlate them as far as possible. The drawings are taken from the thirty sources given at the...
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129 THE AFRICAN THROWING KNIFE. By Ernest $S. Tromas. Taxis note embodies the results of an attempt to collect all available examples of the throwing knife and correlate them as far as possible. The drawings are taken from the thirty sources given at the end of the paper (p. 143), which includes two museums (the British Museum and the Museum of the Royal Geographical Society, Cairo) where the drawings were made direct from the objects. The arrangement of the knives in the chart (pp. 136-7) primarily brings all varieties of the same type together. It also suggests possible lines of evolution of one type from another through the “ F”-shaped weapon to the blade forms which are the most efficient throwing knives. As far as possible the correlation of types widely separated geographically has been avoided—the study of types apart from provenance alone might suggest other and more plausible links of development—but the student of the evolution of the throwing knife is seriously hampered by t
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