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specimen was used with a handle, the blade must have been inserted or 

 lashed (see Fig. 14). 



Length, 4-^%- inches ; greatest width, 3 inches. 



Fig. 2. A rudely-chipped blade of black color. The outline is bell- 

 shaped, and with sufficient grinding and polishing would resemble some 

 of the more beautiful objects in the collection (see Fig. Go and others). 



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Fig. 2. 



The implement has already a pleasing outline, and the form re-appears 

 in Costa Kica and Chiriqui, where great numbers of celts of this shape, 

 but smaller, were recovered. 



Length, 5^0 inches ; width, 3-j^ inches. 



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Fig. 3. 



Fig. 3. A chipped blade of very light brown surfiice, subtriangular 

 in outline. Much of the surface is untouched, and there is just enough 

 of lateral notching, &c., to show that the great variety of form in such 

 implements after they are finished is partly due to nature and partly 

 to the workman's desire to produce a certain kind of implement. It is 



