242 SAVAGE WEAPONS AT THE CENTENNIAL EXHIBITION. 



quainted with metal, retain old habits, and among them the use of stone 

 implements, in ceremonial uses perhaps, rather than 

 in the business of life. That stone should linger after 

 the advent of metal is not surprising when we reflect 

 that the stone battle-axe- was used by many of the 

 .Anglo-Saxons at Hastings, and some of the Germans 

 were armed with it at so late a period as the "Thirty 

 Years* War." 



Fig. 50 shows oneof the articles generally catalogued 

 as a "spade-like implement." It was possibly an axe 

 adapted to pass through the handle and be secured by 

 a Lashing of sinew or raw-hide. 



Fig. 51 shows five ancient implements obtained in 

 Fig.50.— /S various parts of the United States, from mounds and 



eisew here ; a, b, and d are from Louisiana ; e is from Iowa ; c not noted. 



The three last examples are double- 

 headed ceremonial axes, and do not 

 materially differ from examples in 

 the figure following, excepting in 

 not being perforated for the handle. 

 The frequency of the omission in- 

 dicates that the two methods of 

 mounting were simultaneously em- 

 ployed. 



This brings us to the fourth class- 

 perforated axes, which arc consid- 

 ered by Sir John Lubbock as prob- 

 ably characteristic of the early me- 

 tallic period in Europe. 78 



It was long thought that the per- 

 foration of the axe-head did uot 

 occur until the implement came to 

 bemadeof metal. It is true that the 

 labor of boring in stone without the 

 aid of metal and the weakening of 

 so frangible a material might ex- 

 clude that mode of mounting; but 

 it must be recollected that time is of 

 no moment to a savage, never hav- 

 ing read Solomon or Dr. Watts, and 

 mindianmou n, d-c. not taking lessons from insects— 

 which are simply a nuisance and point no moral in Africa. 



The examples pf perforated stone axes at Philadelphia (Fig. 52) were 

 from various parts of the United States, and were shown in the Xa- 

 78 Lubbock's Introduction to Nilson's "Stone Ago," xxix. 



