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Mungo Manic @MungoМanic·28 июл. Can't find a video but here's a description from Roth (1890). Also seems likely the technique was only used in areas where spear- throwers were absent or uncommon p. 195), " The aborigines, when they wished to appear unarmed, had a habit of walking without any weapon in their hands, but very adroitly trailing their spears, which they held fast by their toes, along the ground after them, to be picked up at any moment they were required;"and Davies says, " If the ground is smooth upon which they are walking, as a beach for instance, they have a habit of trailing their spears after them, the point held in some manner between their great toe and that next it; this seems to be that they may have their waddy ready to heave at any small object that may appear. The spear is transferred from the foot to the hand in an instant." It would appear that this stealthy carrying of arms is a warlike precaution, for Calder (pp. 21-22) says: " The Tasmanian aboriginal, in advancing on a victim whom he meant to kill, treacherously approached . .. with his hands clasped and resting on the top of his head, a favourite posture of the black; ...but all the time he was dragging a spear behind him, held between his toes, in a manner that must have taken long to acquire. Then by a motion as unexpected as it was rapid, it was transferred to the hand, and the victim pierced before he could lift a hand or stir a step." The first white man, George Munday, who was killed by an aborigine, fell a victim to this practice; for, as Knopwood relates (p. 53), "the native had a spear concealed, and held by his toes, and as Munday turned from him, he caught up his spear and threw it at him."

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