SAVAGE WEAPONS AT THE CENTENNIAL EXHIBITION. 22, 



Fig. 18. 



of these have their edges in line with the handle and some across it, 

 as axes and adzes respectively. See Sveu Nilson's " Stone Age," 27 edited 

 by Sir John Lubbock. A re- 

 markable four-pronged stone 

 battle-axe is shown in the mu- 

 seum of Lund, Sweden, hav- 

 ing a diameter of 8 inches, 

 and perforated for a handle. 28 

 Fig. 18 is a stone maul 

 lashed with raw-hide thongs 

 to a T-shaped handle which 

 has been formed from a forked 

 branch. It isfrom the llaidah Indians, Bella- 

 bella, British Columbia. Fig. 19 is a large 

 stone maul lashed to a short handle formed 

 of a forked limb. It is from Sitka, Alaska. 

 Fig. 20 is from New Zealand, it shows that 

 a similar mode of mounting is practiced by 

 the Maories, the bowlder being seemed in 

 the crotch by means of thongs. The pursuit FlG . ig ._st„ ne maul, of Aiasha-Na. 

 of similar examples leads us a devious dance. '"'""' Museum - 



We And that the Gran Chaco Indians, of South America, have a peculiar 

 method of embedding a cylindrical stone in a club so that it may project 



-Stone maul, from British Columbia. — National Mu- 

 seum. 



Fir;. 20. — Maori ttone club, New Zealand. 



like an axe blade. A hole is bored into a sapling of suitable size and the 

 stone driven in. As the tree grows, the wood advances upon the stone 

 and grips it firmly. The sapling is then cut and shaped. 



Fig. 21. — Stuiie maulof Arickareeg. 



Fig. 21 is a stone maul of the Arickaree Indians of the Upper Missouri 

 River. 29 It is a reddish, granite pebble of three and a hall' pounds 



27 Page 72, and plate ix, Fi<;'s. 183, 1-1; pp. 73,74; and plate viii. Figs. L80, 181. 



88 Ibid., page 75, and pi. ix, Fig. 159. 



:i s.c ■• Twenty-first Report of N. Y. State Cabinet," pp. 31-36, pis. i, ii, iii. 



