248 SAVAGE WEAPONS AT THE CENTENNIAL EXHIBITION. 



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Fig. 65.— Norwegian 



It is called a cmse-tete by the French of the neighboring departments, 

 but pen-has by the Bretons. 96 See also the marble knob for a stick, found 

 by Dr. Schliemann at Ilium. 97 



The same form is shown by Catliu to have been very common among 



the Blackfeet and 

 other Indian tribes 

 on the headwaters 

 of the Missouri. 

 An axe of Terra del 

 Fuego, shown by 

 Mlson, has a blade 

 of iron inserted in 

 the African man- 

 ner in a wooden 



Fig. 64.— Halberds, India and Norwc-y. stock which has 



been dressed by flint tools. 98 Desor also shows hatchets 

 of diorite, serpentine, and quartzite in sockets of buck- 

 horn, wmieh were mounted in a wooden handle by a 



lateral hole 

 in the side 

 of the club. 

 In another 



case the stone was inserted 

 endwise in a horn socket 

 which was pierced for the 

 handle." In another case 

 the stone in a horn handle 

 had the position formerly 

 occupied by the brow antler. 

 Fig. 64 shows three forms of halberds, light axes on long handles: 

 c is from Norway and belongs to the class with a tang driven into the 

 handle; a b are Sowrah battle-axes from India, and belong t<> the last 

 class of our list — the handle inserted through an eye in the head. To 

 this also belong the Norwegian axes (Fig. 65) and the Arickaree iron 

 tomahawk (Fig. 00). 



III. — Knives and Swords. 



The knife in its primitive form is a sharp flake of stone or obsidian, 

 a sliver of bamboo or wood, or a shell with a sharpened edge. When the 

 point is the specially engaged portion the weapon is a dagger. Many 

 other crude materials furnish the hand-to-hand cutting or piercing 

 weapons, such as the pointed horns of animals, the tail of the sting-ray, 



soTrollope's " Summer Tour in Brittany," London, 1840, Pis. opp. pp. 125, '220, 296. 

 w Schliemannta " Troy and its Remains," ]>. 265. 

 w "Stone Age," PI. vii. Fig. 155. 



"Dcsor. transl. in Smithsonian Report, 1865, pp. 360, 361, Figs. 17, 18, 19. 



Fig. 66. — Iron tomahawk, Dakotah. 



