Mizo tribes are Indigenes of the northeastern state of Mizoram, India. Their heritage embodies the traditional weapons of their occurrence. A clear example of the legacy is the wooden spear in the Indian Museum, Kolkata. This has a wooden shaft inserted into the socket of a pointed iron head. The back end of the shaft has fitted a tapered iron socket, with cane strips wrap at two different places on the shaft for better grip. This design embodies the Mizo people's imagination and skills in making functional weapons for domestic materials.

In Mizo culture, spears were also used for hunting and combat and were known as Chawn. Most of these spears had either bamboo shafts or had iron tips, which made them very light and easy to carry, and were then used by masters in a close quarter or to throw. Cane strips are to be seen for grip enhancement, an additional feature of the museum exhibit that adds to the Mizo's keen eyes for details in practical consideration in their weapons. Mizo-men trained in this art are not confined only with spear throwing but include weapons such as the "Dao" (a machete-like implement) and bows and arrows, each specifically used during their daily life and martial practice. The importance this aspect gets by being carried out in institutions such as the Indian Museum, Kolkata, relates to the fading traditions of martial practice and the deep association of the Mizo people with the potentiality of the nature around them.