Word: crossbows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some 200,000 Nagas live in an area of about 4,000 sq. mi. They live a communal existence, share food and work (although males usually retire at the age of eight and thereafter devote themselves to mastering and using the spear, crossbow and dah, a wicked knife). They are capable though casual farmers. Some raise pigs for trade, but for eating they prefer the dog, which is bred for the Naga table...
...With My Crossbow. That night an albatross landed on the raft. Aldrich killed it with the pistol and Dixon, the only one who could swim, dived overboard and retrieved it. The men ate the organs and the entrails, but put the unplucked flesh away to save. In the night it glowed with phosphorescence and Dixon threw it overboard. That was a tough thing to do. But during the night it rained again. "The drawers worked fine," Dixon said. "We all had a good drink...
...exhibit tried to show "what a pastime of man this has been," how it developed, what art went into it. It traced the course from slingshots and clubs through policemen's billies to the butt end of a rifle; from Roman helmets through medieval to modern Italian; from crossbow to a model of a railroad gun-which could shoot a real .22 bullet...