224 SAVAGE WEAPONS AT THE CENTENNIAL EXHIBITION. 



weight. The withe is bent around it, occupying a circumferential de- 

 pression, which is interrupted opposite the handle. The same kind of 

 hammer was used by the native workmen formerly in the Lake Supe- 



Fig. 22. — Stone mauls of Missouri Valley Indians. — National Museum. 



rior copper mines. It is used by the Missouri Indians in driving stakes 



and tent-pegs. 



Fig. 22 shows two stone implements of the Sioux, the hereditary 

 enemies of the tribe last mentioned. The 

 upper one is a rude grooved axe mounted 

 in a hickory sapling, the two ends of which 

 are brought together with raw-hide thongs 

 to form the handle. The lower figure is 

 a war-club with an egg-shaped limestone 

 head and a handle of ash ; the end of the 

 latter is ornamented with the tuft from 

 the tail of a buffalo. Between the two 

 figures- is a representation of the Roman 

 sacrificial mttllaa-;, which, even in the time 

 ofthe emperors, was employed in slaugh- 

 tering the victims. It seems tohave come 

 down from times then ancient, the order 

 of procedure admitting of no innovation, 

 just as the knives of Hint were used in 

 ancient Egypt and among the Hebrews 

 in performing ceremonial observances and 

 sacrifices. Dr. Schliemann found hun- 

 dreds of rude stone hammers in the hill 

 of Bissarlik. 



Another mode of moulding a large peb- 

 ble or wedge-shaped stone is by means 



of ;i raw-hide covering to the -tune and withe. 



Fig. 23 shows an Arckaree weapon made in this manner : The granite 



pebble weighing 22 ounces is grooved circumferentially and a withe 



in. 



.':: —.1 rickaree 



\.— VTar-chtb 

 of . I pacht •••'. Art- 

 : <> a a.— National 



Musi "in. 



