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BRONZE KNIVES. 



(figs. 49, 50), pins (figs. 51 53), and rings. The bracelets 

 are either simple spirals, or rings open at one side, and 

 decorated by those combinations of straight and curved 

 lines so characteristic of the Bronze Age. Like the weapons, 

 they generally indicate small hands, but, like the bronze 

 ornaments of various existing savages for instance, of many 

 Negro tribes, of the Khonds in Orissa, &c. they are often 

 extremely heavy. 



FIG. 40. 



FIG. 37. 



Bronze Knives from Denmark. 



FIG. 41. 



Bronze Knives from 

 Switzerland. 



Bronze pins are very abundant : for instance, 239 from 

 Estavayer, 600 from Nidau, and more than 6000 from the two 



