Valai Tade
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| Weapon type: | Boomerang, throwing weapon |
| Designations: | Valai Tade |
| Use: | weapon |
| Region of origin / author: |
India , warrior box in India from India |
| Distribution: | India |
| Handle: | Wood |
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The Valai Tade ( Tamil for curved stick ), also Katariya , Bira Jungee , is a boomerang from India.
description
The Valai Tade is made of wood . It is egg-shaped at the pommel and widens from there to the opposite end. The other end is just cut off. The entire Valai Tade is carved flat and provided with sharply ground outer edges. It is similar to the Indian katariya , the metal version of a boomerang. It was used for hunting as well as fighting. The Valai Tade was used by warrior castes in India.
Individual evidence
literature
- Edgar Thurston: Castes and tribes of Southern India. Volume 1, Publishing House Asian Educational Services, 2001, ISBN 978-81-206-0288-5 , page 46, limited preview in Google Book Search.
- The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. Volume 54, The Institute Publisher, 1924, page 336.
- Howard L. Blackmore: Hunting Weapons from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century. With 288 Illustrations, Courier Dover Publications, 2000, ISBN 978-0-4864-0961-0 , page 399, limited preview in Google Book Search.
Web links
Commons : Boomerang - collection of pictures, videos and audio files
