These bones, these bones, these dry bones!!
I read of poisoned arrows (and assume the same for spears) being constructed with these barbs made of human bones...in
On Poisoned Arrows in Melanesia
By the Rev. R. H. Codrington, D.D.
From: The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland
Vol. XIX, pp. 215-219. 1890.
Quote"It is the human bone which in native opinion gives to the arrow its efficacy. The bone of any dead man will do, because any ghost will have power to work on the wounded man; but the bone of one who was powerful when alive is more valued."Unquote.
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