Pagan races of the Malay Peninsula - Sabrizain.org

276 WEAPONS AND IMPLEMENTS part ii
design consisting of two rows of triangles, with con-
verging points (called " puchok rebong " or the " bam-
boo-shoot " pattern), and below this with a pattern
consisting of a number of the concentric and conterminal
curves, known to the Semang as the " hawk's-eye
pattern" (" mata lang "),— measured 24^ in. (611
mm.) over-all, the projecting spike or foot being 8^
in. (204 mm.), and i| in. (35 mm.) in diameter.
There were no loose feathers inside it, but four
arrows, whose over-all lengths were 32]^ in. (814
mm,), 34:| in. (864 mm.), T^2)t '^^- (^34 mrn.), and, again,
32I
in. respectively, with a length of feathering varying
from 7 to 7^
in. (i77 mm. to 200 mm.). In diameter
they were a fraction less than the arrows contained in
the first quiver, but the only important respect in which
they differed consisted in the treatment of the head.
Two of these arrows were of the same type
(roughly speaking) as those in the first quiver ; i.e.
their iron points were spliced into a short wooden
socket-piece, which latter in its turn was inserted into
the hollow end of the bamboo shaft. Between these
two the only noticeable difference lay in the manner
in which the juncture had been effected between the
wooden socket-piece and the iron point ; in the first
case the spike of the iron point had been driven into
the socket-piece (which latter had been bored out on
purpose to take it), the two parts of the head being
bound very firmly together at the point of junction with
a lashing of split rattan coated with resin ;
in the second
case the juncture was effected by setting the spike of
the iron arrow-head between two short prong-like
projections (of the socket- piece), somewhat on the
" rat's-tail " principle, and binding the two parts
round as before.