MANUFACTURE OF FLAKES IN MEXICO. 



93 



Australian flake, and fig. 94, one from the Cape of Good Hope. 

 Figs. 95, 96, represent a New Caledonian javelin, with an 

 obsidian flake (fig. 96) for a head. 



FIG. 93. 



Australian Flake. 



FIG. 04. 



Flake from the Cape of Good Hope. 



Some of the old Spanish writers in Mexico give us a 

 description of the manner in which the Aztecs obtained their 

 obsidian flakes. Torquemada,* who is confirmed by Her- 

 nandez, tells us I quote from Mr. Taylor's Anahuac 

 "they had, and still have, workmen who make knives of 



* Torquemada, Monarquia Indiana. Seville, 1615. 



