bagakay
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| name = Bagakay
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| origin = Philippines
| type = Projectile Dart, Spear
| is_bladed = No
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| used_by = Filipinos
| wars = Spanish colonization of the Philippines
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| length = 6-10 inches
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The Bagakay is an ancient Filipino weapon made of bamboo.{{cite web |title=Intersections: The Philippines at the Turn of the Sixteenth Century. |url=http://intersections.anu.edu.au/monograph1/mintz_hunting.html |website=intersections.anu.edu.au |access-date=21 December 2021}} It is a two pointed wooden dart type of weapon about ten inches in length{{cite book |last1=Sr |first1=Amante P. Marinas |title=The Art of Throwing: The Definitive Guide to Thrown Weapons Techniques (Downloadable Media Included) |date=10 December 2013 |publisher=Tuttle Publishing |isbn=978-1-4629-0551-5 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tzXRAgAAQBAJ&dq=bagakay+as+a+dart+weapon+philippines&pg=PT65 |access-date=21 December 2021 |language=en}} thrown at an enemy at close quarters and were generally thrown five at a time increasing the possibility of hitting the target.{{cite web |last1=Mallari |first1=Perry Gil S. |title=The FMA and the Projectile Range |url=https://fmapulse.com/fma-corner/fma-corner-fma-and-projectile-range-2/ |website=Filipino Martial Arts Pulse |access-date=21 December 2021 |date=21 July 2009}} It can be made from small tree branches cut in the proper length and sharpened at both ends or made from hollow bamboo filled with clay for additional weight and easy throwing.{{cite book |last1=Sr |first1=Amante P. Marinas |title=The Art of Throwing: The Definitive Guide to Thrown Weapons Techniques (Downloadable Media Included) |date=10 December 2013 |publisher=Tuttle Publishing |isbn=978-1-4629-0551-5 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tzXRAgAAQBAJ&dq=bagakay+as+a+dart+weapon+philippines&pg=PT65 |access-date=21 December 2021 |language=en}}
History
The bagakay was usually used to hunt birds before the Spanish Colonial period. It has evolved into a projectile weapon against the Spanish colonists during the colonization era.{{cite book |last1=Robertson (1873–1939) |first1=Emma Helen Blair (d 1911) James Alexander |title=The Philippine Islands, 1493–1898: explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century, Volume XXIX, 1638–40 |page=259 |url=https://www.gutenberg.org/files/38748/38748-h/38748-h.htm#xd19e2909src |access-date=21 December 2021 |language=en}} Bagakay may also connote a long bamboo spear{{cite web |last1=Mallari |first1=Perry Gil S. |title=The FMA and the Projectile Range |url=https://fmapulse.com/fma-corner/fma-corner-fma-and-projectile-range-2/ |website=Filipino Martial Arts Pulse |access-date=21 December 2021 |date=21 July 2009}}
See also
References
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Category:Philippine martial arts
Category:Weapons of the Philippines
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