Chez certaines tribus aborigènes, les sagaies font jusqu'à 3 m de long sans empennage ! et les tirs se font horizontalement ...
Voici une planche des sagaies : (et la notice ici :
Plate II. Native Weapons
1. Spear barbed on both sides, of hard wood, 10 1/2 feet long, used in war or hunting.
2. Similar to the last but only barbed on one side, used for same purposes.
3. Kar–ku–ru—smooth spear of hard wood, 10 1/2 feet, used for punishments, as described page 222, also for general purposes.
4. Short, smooth, hard wood spear, 7 1/2 feet long, used to spear fish in diving.
5. Reed spear with barbed hard wood point, used for war with the throwing stick—the way of holding it, and position of the hand are shewn.
6. Hard wood spear with grass–tree end, 8 feet long, used with the throwing stick for general purposes.
7. Hard wood spear with single barb spliced on, 8 feet long, used from Port Lincoln to King George’s Sound for chase or war, it is launched with the throwing stick.
8. Ki–ko—reed spear, hard wood point, 6 to 7 feet long, used with the throwing–stick to kill birds or other game.
9. Hard wood spear, grass–tree end, barbed with flint, used with the throwing–stick for war.
10. The head of No. 9 on a arger scale.
11. The head of No. 1 on a larger scale.
12. The head of a Lachlan spear, taken from a man who was wounded there, the spear entered behind the shoulder in the back, and the point reached to the front of the throat, it had to be extracted by cutting an opening in the throat and forcing the spear–head through from behind—the man recovered.
13. The head of No. 7 on a larger scale.
