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Updated: June 3, 2025
*The most comprehensive list of these objects is that given in Munro's Prehistoric Japan: "Objects of iron , Swords and daggers; , Hilt-guards and pommels; , Arrow-heads; , Spear-heads and halberd-heads; Armour and helmets; , Stirrups and bridle-bits; , Ornamental trappings for horses; , Axes, hoes, or chisels; , Hoes or spades; , Chains; , Rings; , Buckles; , Smith's tongs or pincers; , Nails; , Caskets, handles, hinges, and other fittings.
The chain cables must have been invaluable to the natives, and I detected several links which had been partly converted into spear-heads. There was nothing worthy of remark in the town of Baloongan. We were very much interested in the Dyak tribes, who were the same as those described at Gonong Tabor, and in greater numbers.
There was no thought anywhere save of preparation for the march. Guns were cleaned, flints replaced, new hickory ramrods whittled out, and the grindstones threw off sparks under the pressure of swords and spear-heads. Even the little children were at work rubbing goose-grease into the hard leather of their elders' foot-gear, against the long tramp to Fort Stanwix.
The cases 42-45 are filled with bronze weapons, including spear-heads from the sepulchres of Etruria; arrow-heads and bronze swords of the Roman time; standards with the famous Roman eagles; helmets, including a famous one dedicated to Jupiter Olympius, by Hiero I. on the occasion of gaining a victory over the Tuscans at Cumae, upwards of four centuries before our era; and one found at Olympia, dedicated by the Argives; bronze plates, and military belts, from Vulci.
The Hindu commentators of the Veda certainly lay great stress on the fact that the palasa, one of their lightning-trees, is trident-leaved. The mistletoe branch is forked, like a wish-bone, and so is the stem which bears the forget-me-not or wild scorpion grass. So too the leaves of the Hindu ficus religiosa resemble long spear-heads.
Some are mere flakes of flint, apparently used for knives or arrow-heads; some are pointed and with hollowed bases, as if for spear-heads, varying from four to nine inches in length; some are almond-shaped, with a cutting edge, from two to nine inches in length.
The sword was straight and short, between two and three feet in length, with a double edge, tapering to a sharp point, and used for either cut or thrust; the handle was frequently inlaid with precious stones. The metal used in the manufacture of swords and spear-heads was bronze, hardened by a process unknown to us.
So then I knew that what scared the herons must be men, and men who knew not our ways of going softly so as to take the birds and beasts unawares. By this I knew they were not of our race or of our place. So, leaving my raft, I crept along the river bank, and at last came upon the strangers. They are many as the sands of the desert, and their spear-heads shine red like the sun.
So saying he directed the boat toward the rushes nearest to the bank and pushed the boat through them. "Oh, here you are, Jethro!" Chebron said, seeing the Rebu and the men he had accompanied standing on the bank. "What has happened, Chebron have you killed one of them? We heard a sort of roar and a great splashing." "We have not killed him, but there are two spear-heads sticking into him."
Spear-heads, too, are of beautiful bronze-gold, with tracings round the socket of great excellence and charm. For a picture of the life of that age, we cannot do better than return to Emain of Maca, telling the story of one famous generation of warriors and fair women who loved and fought there two thousand years ago.
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