244 SAVAGE WEAPONS AT THE CENTENNIAL EXHIBITION. 



We have now reached the second division of axes, those of metal. In 

 this section we can scarcely preserve the quadripartite subdivisions of 

 the stone group. The collection, however, furnished good specimens of 



crude workmanship in 

 two classes of axes — 

 those which are lashed 

 to a seat on a handle 

 and those which per- 

 forate the handle. 



The examples of those 

 which are lashed to a 

 seat on the handle are, 

 singularly enough, 

 tools in which iron 

 blades obtained from 

 attached to handles in the manner previously 

 Fig. 53 shows two adzes of the Anderson 



Fig. 53. — Eskimo adzes. 



the whites have been 

 adopted with stone tools 

 River Eskimo, the handles of which have been ingeniously fashioned 

 to fit the hand. The blades are both made of hatchet heads, in one 



case (a) the eye is made use 

 of in lashing the handle to 

 the iron ; iu the other case 

 (b) the eye has been ground 

 away, and it is secured to 

 the handle by thongs in the 

 manner of a stone celt. The 

 tools indicate both the in- 

 veterate habit of mounting 

 and also the preference for 

 the adze method of using. 



The Greenlander's adze 

 (Fig. 54), shown in the Dan- 

 ish department of the Main Building, is made of a common 2£-inch 

 chisel strapped by a seal-skin thong to a beech wood handle about a 



foot long. Fig. 55 is a small hand 

 adze or chisel with a bone handle. 

 The blade was originally a hatchet 

 of which the eye has been split and 

 a piece removed. The handle 

 shows an imitation of a saw-han- 

 dle. It is from the Haidah In- 



54. — Grcenlanders' adze. 



Fig 55.— Indian adze. Haidahs, British Columbia. 



dians of Bella-Bella, British Columbia. 



The Ja van axes 88 are mounted in different ways; two hinds, known 

 respectively a&pttel and wadwig, are chisel-shaped tools lashed to stocks 

 whose natural growth as a fork facilitates that method; another, called 



"Baffles "Java," 4to, i, 174, Figa. 1, 2, 4. 





