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13th September 2010, 06:43 PM
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Interesting thing is that this is similar to the way they made musket barrels, at least following Wallace's Malay Archipelago.
It's interesting to me, because in the Amazon (at least according to a video I saw years ago), they split a palm stalk, carve the central barrel, smooth the two halves flat, then glue the whole thing back together very carefully. Then again, they didn't have nice long rods for boring, either. They also didn't mount spearheads on their blowpipes. Great pics. Thanks for posting them! F |
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13th September 2010, 11:18 PM
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Nice pictures !
They turned them into as sort of drawing like print, and by the looks of this warrior the retouched most of his tattoos  I have seen a Penan man working on a full size blowpipe in 1998 and in remote areas they will probably still use it. |
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14th September 2010, 12:56 AM
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Fascinating! Love seeing how the native crafts where/ are made! Thanks for sharing!
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