Identifier: handbooktoethnog00brit (find matches)
Title: Handbook to the ethnographical collections
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: British Museum. Dept. of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography Joyce, Thomas Athol, 1878-1942 Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945
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Publisher: (London) : Printed by order of the Trustees
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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J;iIi;ui»;m; wariiMC in full aniiviir. i^Frnni a Japaiicsc ilrawing.) \_Face p. 5-4 56 ASIA have been quite equal in i)0\ver to any of later date. Tliemodern bows are in all essential details the same as those ofmediaeval times (fig. 45). MalcJdocks. The Japanese first became acquainted with fire arms when thePortuguese Mendez Pinto touched at the island of Tanegashimaon the south of Kyushu in 1543. The manufacture of match-
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Fiu. 45.—Japanese mounted archer (from a Japanese drawing;. locks began at once, and until quite recently, with the exceptionof rude cannon, the matchlock musket and pistol were the onlyfirearms in use. Short muskets or pistols seem to have first beenmade, and these are still called, in the colloquial, Tanegashima,the name of the island mentioned above. NORTHERN AND CENTRAL ASIA This vast area, comprising Kussian Central Asia, Siberia,Turkestan, Mongolia, Tibet, and Northern China, is very scantilyrepresented in the collection. The inhabitants almost all belong NORTHERN AND CENTRAL ASIA 57 to the northern branch of the Mongolian race/ with more or lessadmixture of other blood as we recede from the home of the trueMongols in the regions north and east of Tibet. The people overthe central and southern part of the area are nomadic stock-breeders living on the produce of their herds (horses, sheep,camels), and dwelling in tents of skin and felt. The exceptionsto this rule are chiefly fo

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