A tree spear; a thin-shafted spear with a detachable blade joined by a cord.
This spear is used to spear tree animals, as a civit cat, amūnin, or a large fruit to bring it down. The shaft, pā'aw, is made of small diameter wood or an arrow-grass cane, bilāu, about 3 or 4 m. long. The blade, including the shank, ūtong, is about 10 cm. long and 1« cm. wide at the tips of the barbs, hēngel.