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CHISELS. 



angle is almost exactly the same as that which we find in the 

 adze of the New Zealanders and other South Sea Islanders. 

 Figs. Ill 113 represent a recent adze, brought by the Eev. 

 E. Taylor from New Zealand, and now in the British Museum, 

 which very closely resembles the typical axes of the Kjokken- 



FIG. 108. 



FIG. loo. 



FIG. no. 



Danish Axe. 



moddings. The edge, indeed, is polished, but is after all not 

 smoother than the natural fracture of the flint. The projection 

 on the under side of the Danish specimen (fig. 110) is acci- 

 dental, and due to some peculiarity in the flint. This face 

 is usually as flat in the Danish specimens as in those from 

 New Zealand. Very similar adzes also occur in the shell- 

 mounds of Japan. 



The chisels (pi. 1, fig. 5) resemble the Danish axes in having 

 perpendicular sides, but they are narrower, and are almost 

 always ground to a smooth surface. Many of them are 

 slightly hollowed on one side, as in fig. 114. 



