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to a pine handle. It is from the chook chees ( Tschuck-t&ehis) of Northeast 

 (Siberia. The mode of fastening is much like that of the old Egyptian 

 hoes, as shown in Wilkinson's works. 



Fig. 47. — Ice-pick and skin-dresscr, Siberia. 



Fig. 48.— Stone adze, British Columbia. 



Fig. 48 is the last illustration we shall offer of this mode of attaching 

 the bit or blade to the handle of wood. It is a small adze of argillite 

 lashed with twisted sinews to a handle formed of a forked branch. Such 

 implements were used in smoothing the insides of canoes. The main 

 stem was grasped by the left hand, and the smaller one by the right. 

 It is from the Haidah Indians of Bella-Bella, British Columbia. 



We reach the third class of our first division and notice the single 

 instance in the Philadelphia Exhibition in which a modern stone axe 

 was inserted through a hole in the handle. This has been deemed 

 the characteristic African method, and with much reason, though 

 instances of its adoption are found elsewhere ; the New Caledonians, 

 for instance, mount their axes like the Africans, putting the tang of the 

 bit through a perforated knob on the end of the handle. As almost all 

 the African tribes use iron, smelted and worked by native smiths, the 



instances of the African 

 method will occur more 

 frequently in the second 

 division of the subject, 

 which treats of metal. 

 The modern axe of 

 greenstone (Fig. 49) is 

 used in Mozambique, a 



Fig. 40.— Stone axe of Mozambique. Portuguese COloilV ill 



Eastern Africa. The bit is 8 inches long, and is lashed with strips of 

 raw-hide to a wooden handle, which is carved at the hand-hold. The 

 lashing is covered with cowrie-shells, which form in part the currency 

 of the natives ; they answer, we may suppose, the same purpose as the 

 gold mounting of a dress-sword. The inhabitants, though well ac- 

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