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Fig. 41.—The Stick and the Shield.

1. Various forms of Australian Tamarang or Parrying Shields; 2. Shield of Mundo Negros; 3. Negro parrying Shield; 4. Old Egyptian Parrying Shield; 5. Dowak straight flat Throw-stick (Australia); 6. Boomerang that does not return; 7. Boomerang that does return.

Fig. 42.—Throw-sticks.

1. Australian Tombat; 2. Malga War-pick; 3–6. Australian Waddy Clubs; 7. Hatchet Boomerang.

Fig. 43.—Old Egyptian Boomerang.

Fig 44.—Bulak Sword.

Fig. 45.—Hieroglyphic Inscription on Wooden Sword, of Bulak.

From the throw-stick would naturally arise the Chakrá, the steel wheel or war-quoit, which the Akális—a stricter order of Sikhs—carried in their long hair, and launched after twirling round the forefinger.[119] The boomerang-shape is also perpetuated in the dreaded Kukkri or Gurkha Sword-knife, now used, however, only for hand-to-hand fighting. I have mentioned the Cuchillo or Spanish clasp-knife- and the Italian sickle-throwing. The Australian weapon was unknown, like the shield, to Tasmania, whose only missile was the Waddy or throw-stick.