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[QUOTE]Originally posted by DD'eDeN: [QB] At Marnie's blog, Linearpopulationmodel, a 1975 article about the Papuan Awa people and their use of bamboo knives. http://linearpopulationmodel.blogspot.com/?m=1 Wednesday, March 6, 2019 Use of Bamboo by the Awa Richard Loving The Journal of the Polynesian Society Vol. 85, No. 4 (December 1976), pp. 521-542 (22 pages) (Link) page 522: "Varieties of Bamboo" "The Awa of Mobuta Village categorise kabahra, their generic term for bamboo, under six different varieties. The six do not include wild bamboo kuahraq which grows in the climax forest and from which most of their bow strings are made. Neither do they include the thick oriental type bamboo kotawe which the Awa plant primarily for shade. The six varieties of bamboo recognized by the Awa are anaura, mahrampa, pahra, mebe, antau, and niya ana. All six, with the possible exception of mebe, are varieties of Nastus elatus. the common bamboo of the Papua New Guinea Highlands." page 532: "Sogiq (knife)" "Most Awa have scars which testify to the fact that bamboo cuts. However, bamboo does not cut simply by applying pressure to it. For bamboo to cut, it must be moved across the object being cut, or vice versa, because bamboo has small serrations which do the cutting. To obtain the best cutting edge a short section of a hard type of bamboo (anaura or pahra) is put near the fire to make it more brittle. As the sogiq is used it is "sharpened" as necessary simply by pulling off a sixteenth of an inch section along the cutting edge. This is done in such as way as to expose only the harder outside edge of the bamboo, the cutting portion. When used with the proper pulling slicing action, the effectiveness of the sogiq for cutting boneless meat is demonstrated by the fact that most Awa prefer the sogiq to steel knives when both are available. Before steel knives were available to them, the Awa also used the sogiq for peeling vegetables and for most other cutting functions now down with steel knives." page 537: "Tayeba (bamboo arrowhead)" "Only the very hard bamboo, anaura and pahra, is used for making tayeba which is used almost exclusively for hunting pigs." page 540: "Pempiah (flutes)" "All flutes except the secret flutes used in the men's cult are known as pempiah and are made from anaura." DD: Awa men's secret flute may descend from Mbuti molimo bamboo trumpet? Tayeba@Awa: bamboo Arrowhead, likely source of Malay tat (blowgun dart and tattoo: needle art) and English tatting (stitching with needle) and Aztec atlatl (dart launcher). Sogiq@Awa: serrated bamboo knife likely original source of Malay pisau: knife, and English saw, compare Sahara/Sierra/serrated with Awa kabahra: bamboo, and pahra, a hard bamboo that is fire-hardened for blades. Compare the serrated knife to the ancient super-shark Megalodon's 7" serrated teeth, called the "ultimate curtting tool": https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/03/190304134221.htm A photo of the jaws reminds me of the Pygmy preference for pointy teeth (at puberty, teeth are chipped to make them pointed though not serrated). Awa fits perfectly as a tribal name, being between Namakwa(San), Kwakwa(Khoekhoe), Efe & Aka/Akka & Baka & Batwa/Tsua/Twa (Afr. Pygmies), Agta & Mamanwa(Philippines),https://goo.gl/images/pgF9CL Mbabaram(Austl Queensland), and part of Papua/Papawa, which is from mBambahtua or so, and perfectly fits the Awa's village name Mobuta as a link to the Ba-Mbuti. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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