SAVAGE WEAPONS AT THE CENTENNIAL EXHIBITION. 247 



Fig. 61 shows that this system of inserting the blade in the handle has 

 been practiced in far distant times and places, a b are ancient forms of 

 Egyptian bronze axes. 90 c d are ancient axes from the Sachi tope 91 at 

 Bhilsa, in Central India, c is an axe shown on a Mexican monnment. 

 The obsidian or copper blade is inserted in the handle. / and g show 

 the instrument known as mahquahuitl, a double-headed axe with obsidian 



Fig. 62. — Axe of the Philippines. 



flakes inserted in wooden handles, h shows a copper axe of Yucatan, 

 the plate being inserted in a slitted handle. The battle-axe was the 

 weapon of the Peru- 

 vian soldiery." 2 Nu- 

 merous Trojan battle- 

 axes of copper were 

 found by Dr. Schlie- 

 mann at Hissarlik.'' 3 



The axe of the Phil- 

 ippines was shown in 

 the Spanish Building. 

 It has a peculiarly 

 shaped head and along Via - w—Casse-tfu, Dakotah. 



ferrule. The hand-stop on the helve was the only instance of the kind 

 in the exhibition. It is a sort of rudimentary guard, like a partial hilt 

 on the two-handed helve. (Fig. 02.) 



The jungle hook of the Singhalese (wal-dakat) and a chopping axe 

 (proa) 9 * are used for clearing brush and cutting trees. Even the poor 

 Veddahs of the interior forests "have a little ax, which they stick in 

 by their sides, to cut honey out of hollow trees." 95 



Fig. (!.'> is a Dakotah Indian war-club (casse-tete) ornamented with 

 carving and armed with a leaf-shaped steel point. The peasant of Brit- 

 tany carries a knobbed stick resembling the Kafir Icnob-keerie. (Fig. 1.) 



^Kitto, vol. i, p. 507; "Duleth," p. 7. 



'■" Cminingliam's "Bhilsa Tope," pi. xv, Figs. 8, 9. 



92 Prescott's "Conquest of Peru," vol. i, p. 72. 



93 Schliemann's "Troy and its Remains," pp. 330, 331. 



»« Knox's "Ceylou," pp. 273-4. 



*>lMd., p. 61. 



