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Bronzes, Statuettes, Votive Boats. 63 It is probable that a sword, now destroyed, rested against the right shoulder. That this was the case may be inferred from the number of bows found in fragments or partly broken, exempli- fied in Fig. 58, whose shields are kept in place by a leather strap. 1 But, curious enough, in place of being carried in front they fall over the back, leaving the hands free, a mode common with soldiers on the line of march. Other weapons, such as clubs, stone axes, hooked or otherwise, are met with here and there, as in Fig. 59, 2 representing an exalted personage in a short tight- Fig. 58.— Statuettes from Teti. Height, 20 c. Cagliari Museum. From Wallet. Fig. 59.— Statuette from Teti. Height, 18 c. Cagliari Museum. From Wallet. fitting tunic, over which is thrown a flowing mantle, held out with his right hand as though to display a fine figure. He leans upon a knotted club grasped in his left. In the next (Fig. 60) the tunic is fringed and longer, but leaves the neck, legs, and arms exposed. He has no defensive weapons save a shield and a staff, whose upper end is hooked almost at right angles. Its archaic type seems to imply a stone axe. Hunters, too, hold an important place in the series, typified in 1 La Marmora questioned whether such appendages were not modern additions. The impression left upon MM. Pais and Pigorini, after due examination of the statue, is that the details were of the same date as the statuette {Boll. Sard., p. 114). 2 Among the Uta figures is one in whose left hand is carried a similar knotted club, his right supporting a broad sword against his shoulder. The mantle, what we see on the Teti statuettes (Spano, Antico Larario Sardo di Uta, Plate I. fig. 3).