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Sumpit

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Sumpit 

a blowgun of wood or bamboo, approximately 2.5 m in length and 2–3 cm in diameter, used by a number of tribes and ethnic groups of Indonesia and Malaysia for hunting small game. Arrows 20–30 cm long and usually dipped in poisons derived from plants are shot from the sumpit. The sumpit was formerly used as a weapon in intertribal warfare.



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The Sumpit target has been reduced in priority on the basis of surface work conducted in 1997, while exploration will start this year in the Mariculum and Tiyabanan targets.
microps Linut CYPRINODONTI-FORMES HEMIRAMPHIDAE Hemirhamphodon pogonognathus Kenyulung, Julungjulung BELONIDAE Xenentodon canciloides Julungjulung, Kenyulung, Tepu SYNGNATHI-FORMES SYNGATHIDAE Doryichthys boaja Penyucuk telinga buaya, Sumpit buaya Doryichthys martensii Penusuk telinga buaya SYNBRANCHI-FORMES SYNBRANCHIDAE Monopterus albus Belut, Lindung PERCIFORMES CHANDIDAE Gymnochanda cf.
1994 Preliminary Survey of Buaya Sumpit (Tomistoma schlegelii) and Buaya Kodok (Crocodylus siamensis) in East Kalimantan.
 
 
 
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