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him. There would seem to be two edges to this specimen, but the 

 smaller one is a little modified from the natural shape. 



Length, 7i inches; width, 2 inches. 



Figs. 10 and 11. Two blades or celts of brown surface and highly 

 polished. These objects should certainly be called chisels if any are to 

 receive that name. Figure 10 has sloping sides, while in Fig. 11 they 

 are almost parallel. The outline of each is perfectly symmetrical and 

 the edges so neatly bevelled as almost to create a suspicion of their sav- 

 age origin. These specimens would be considered unique in any area of 

 lithic culture, and certainly the West Indies have produced no others 

 similar. (See Timehri i, p. 265, 1-7.) 



Length of 10, 6-^^ inches ; of 11, 5 j^ inches. 



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Fig. 12. 



Fig. 12. Polished blade from New Caledonia. The material is of a 

 clear green color resembling jade. Professor Baird has given the name 

 jadoid to this whole class of minerals so well known to archaeologists. 

 This shape is well known throughout the Papuan area, most of the 

 blades being mounted in curiously- wrought lambdoidal handles, very 

 thin and wide above and at the blade. The wonder is how such tools 

 could have been used with any eflect (see Fig. 14). 



Length, 5-^\ inches ; width, 3 inches. 





Fig. 13. 



Fig. 13. Polished blade from New Caledonia, of light-mottled green 

 color. It resembles Fig, 12 in general appearance, but the edge has 

 been much used, indicated clearly by the battering on the outer side. 



Length, 7/o inches ; width, 3^ inches. 



