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Archaic Arms Funditor Offline Testing and inventing "Archaic" weapons. Posts: 733	Tahitian Sling Jul 8^th, 2022 at 7:52am http://web.prm.ox.ac.uk/cookvoyages/index.php/en/the-objects/103-objects/tahiti/...
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Teg Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Posts: 1115 Central Europe Gender:	Re: Tahitian Sling Reply #1 - Jul 8^th, 2022 at 3:13pm Very nice. Thanks for sharing!
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AncientCraftwork Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Posts: 2403	Re: Tahitian Sling Reply #2 - Jul 8^th, 2022 at 4:26pm Good find
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TOMBELAINE Funditor Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 834 france Gender:	Re: Tahitian Sling Reply #3 - Jul 9^th, 2022 at 2:52am Good find. To follow up to a recent post, there is no fingerloop and the straps are equal. Holding the sling is probably in full hand. Just my idea.
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AncientCraftwork Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Posts: 2403	Re: Tahitian Sling Reply #4 - Jul 9^th, 2022 at 3:20am I do see a loop on one end of the cord. Look closely. If I had to guess how they gripped it I would guess a 'tight grip / full fist' due to the long length
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TOMBELAINE Funditor Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 834 france Gender:	Re: Tahitian Sling Reply #5 - Jul 9^th, 2022 at 5:42am At the place of "the loop", the strap is seen from the side. So I'm pretty skeptical. Just my idea but I think that there is no fingerloop. But it's just my idea.
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TOMBELAINE Funditor Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 834 france Gender:	Re: Tahitian Sling Reply #6 - Jul 9^th, 2022 at 10:57am I'm wrong. http://web.prm.ox.ac.uk/cookvoyages/index.php/en/the-objects/103-objects/tahiti/... The text says a loop, probably.
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TOMBELAINE Funditor Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 834 france Gender:	Re: Tahitian Sling Reply #7 - Jul 13^th, 2022 at 7:46am https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/x9128 In this link, page 2, photo attached This sling looks great. It has the same geographical origin : Tahiti.
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TOMBELAINE Funditor Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 834 france Gender:	Re: Tahitian Sling Reply #8 - Jul 13^th, 2022 at 7:52am The fingerloop has a ponpon. I don't know if ponpon is an english word. It's rather elegant. On a French study, I saw the ponpon made with a tuft of human hair.
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TOMBELAINE Funditor Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 834 france Gender:	Re: Tahitian Sling Reply #9 - Jul 13^th, 2022 at 8:10am I found the photo.
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rasul Junior Member Offline sleeping in the garden.. Posts: 80 bay area slinging club Gender:	Re: Tahitian Sling Reply #10 - May 1^st, 2023 at 4:11am "made from coconut fibre" now the real question is, can it sling coconuts
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TOMBELAINE Funditor Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 834 france Gender:	Re: Tahitian Sling Reply #11 - May 2^nd, 2023 at 7:13am The discussion may not be about coconuts. But about fingerloop. By looking closely, the fingerloops don't look like the ones we do today. Photo 1 : today Photo 2 : Tombelaine Photo 3 : Archaic Arms The gip was probably "full hand" with a "fixing" loop for a finger. It's kind of my idea.
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