This type is most common in Borneo, with a spear usually attached. After the bore is carefully drilled with a chisel on the end of a long rod, the block is trimmed to a cylinder.
Apparently unknown to New World artisans, the most difficult type of blowgun to construct is made from a single block of wood about 2.5 m (8 feet) long. This split type is found in scattered locations including Malaya, Borneo, the Philippines, Japan, south India, and South America on the Pacific Coast and between the Negro and the Madeira rivers and has also been reported from Louisiana. A third major variety is made by splitting a length of wood, carving half the bore on each face, and binding the halves together. In northernmost South America, a palm stem (pith removed) is the usual outer tube occasionally another serves as the inner tube. In the Old World (notably Malaya) these are usually bamboo, the inner tube commonly being made of two sections fitted into a short length of bamboo the outer tube also may be composite. Another variety has an inner and an outer tube. Single-tube bamboo blowguns occur widely, often in peripheral regions of use or where the weapon serves as a toy. If the bamboo internodes are short, the septa may be burned or punched out and the interior polished. The simplest of the four basic types is a single tube, usually a section of cane or bamboo. Apparently invented by Malaysians, blowguns were Pre-Columbian in both hemispheres whether their occurrence in the New World represents reinvention or introduction remains uncertain.īlowguns vary in length from 18 inches to more than 23 feet (45 centimetres to 7 metres). Employed by Malaysians and other Southeast Asian aboriginals, in southern India and Sri Lanka, in Madagascar (Malagasy Republic), in northwestern South America, in Central America north to central Mexico, among southeastern American Indians, and in Melanesia (rarely), it also may have been used prehistorically in the Antilles. Primarily for hunting, it is rarely used in warfare. SpaceNext50 Britannica presents SpaceNext50, From the race to the Moon to space stewardship, we explore a wide range of subjects that feed our curiosity about space!īlowgun, tubular weapon from which projectiles are forcefully propelled by human breath.Learn about the major environmental problems facing our planet and what can be done about them! Saving Earth Britannica Presents Earth’s To-Do List for the 21st Century.Britannica Beyond We’ve created a new place where questions are at the center of learning.100 Women Britannica celebrates the centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment, highlighting suffragists and history-making politicians.
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