SAVAGE WEAPONS AT THE CENTENNIAL EXHIBITION. 



239 



Scania, Sweden, 75 and at Nbotka Sound; also, the flint axes of Scandi- 

 navia, which are never bored, but are rough chipped and unground. 76 

 Axes of diorite, green- 

 stone, and basalt have 

 sometimes holes bored 

 through, by which to 

 suspend them. 

 Fig. 41 is a stone adze 



(J'oilX It' JcttinOCL) frOffl ^" IG- ' f! '' — Stone adze {unmounted), New Zealand. 



the Sandwich Islands; it is nine inches long. Fig. 42 is a shell adze 

 from a shell heap on Saint John's River, Florida. The adze of the Pelew 

 Islanders 77 is made of the shell of the giant clam. Shell is used as a 



Fig. 40.— Maori adze, New Zealand. 



material for cutting instruments in many places where stone and metal 

 are rare : such as were formerly some of the West Indies and some islands 

 of Polynesia and Oceanica. The Pelew Island implement may be turned 



Fig. 41. — Stone adze, Sandwich Inlands. 



Fig. 42.— Shell adze, Saint John's 



Hirer, Florida. 



in the head so as to be used as an axe or an adze. The same adaptability 

 may be found in an iron axe-adze of the Dyak of Borneo. The war axe 



75 Nikon's " Stone Age," PI. vii, Figs. 147, 150, and page G2. 



71 Ibid., }>. 64, and PI. vii, Fig. 153. 



"Wood's "Natural History of Mail," ii, p. 450. 



