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Fig. 46.—Transition from Celt to Paddle Spear and Sword Forms.

1. Wooden Club Sword from New Guinea; 2. Paddle from New Guinea; 3. New Zealand Pattu-Pattu, or Meri; 4. Pattu-Pattu from the Brazil; 5. Analogous forms; 6. Ditto, ditto; 7–10. Club Paddles from Polynesia; 11–13. Wooden Spears from Friendly Islands.

Fig. 47.—Clubs of Fiji Islands.

Fig. 48.—Wooden Swords and Clubs of Brazilian Indians.

THE PADDLE-SWORD.

Fig. 49.—Pagaya, Sharpened Paddle.

The passage of the paddle into the Sword is well shown amongst the wilder ‘Indians’ of the Brazil. The Tupis still employ the Tacapé, Tangapé, or Iverapema, which is written ‘Iwarapema’ by Hans Stade, of Hesse, in the charmingly naïve account of his travels and captivity.[127] It was a single piece of the hard, heavy, and gummy wood which characterises these hot-damp regions,[128] and of different shapes with and without handles.[129] The most characteristic implement is a long and rounded shaft with a tabular, oval, and slightly-pointed blade: it was slung by a lanyard round the neck and hung on either side. With a weapon of this kind the cannibal natives slaughtered Pero Fernandes Sardinha, first Bishop of Bahia, and all his suite; the ‘martyrs’ had been wrecked on the shoals of Dom Rodrigo off the mouth of the Coruripe River. The scene is illustrated in the ‘History’ of the late M. de Varnhagen (p. 321).