Blowgun
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A blowgun is a simple ranged weapon consisting of a long narrow tube for shooting light projectiles such as darts. It operates by having the projectile placed inside the pipe and using the force creat
Demonstration of a blowgun by a Yagua hunter
Mixtec blowgun Tlacalhuazcuahuitl depicted in the Codex Bodley
A Dayak man using a blowgun (Dutch East Indies, c.1920)
Rivercane quiver with blowgun darts, fletched with bull thistle
Dart (missile)
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Darts are airborne ranged weapons. They are designed to fly such that a sharp, often weighted point will strike first. They can be distinguished from javelins by the presence of fletching and a shaft
Blowgun
…A blowgun (also called a blowpipe or blow tube) is a simple ranged weapon consisting of a long narrow tube for shooting light projectiles such as darts. It operates by having the projectile placed inside the pipe and using the force created by forced exhalation ("blow") to pneumatically propel the…
Roman plumbatae. The wooden shafts and fletching have decayed.
A dart being propelled by an atlatl
Bagakay throwing darts from the Philippines
Detail of a feathered dart from Venus and Adonis by Titian, Prado, 1554