Throwing Axes |
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This weapon consists of a shaped wooden handle up to two feet in
length, capped with a narrow hatchet-type blade comprised either of
sharpened metal, shaped stone or obsidian glass. Often carved with
ceremonial inscriptions. Can be used as a hand weapon, often in conjunction
with a shield of dried rawhide over a wood frame, or thrown as a missle
weapon. It is gives a particularly vicious attack. |
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At the left side of Hci's face, at the chin, there was an irregular, jagged scar, some two inches in length. ...... It had been given to him by a Yellow Knife in mounted combat, the result of a stroke by a long-handled, stone-bladed tomahawk, or canhpi. Book 18: Blood Brothers of Gor, page 9 |
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