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sides, which are tolerably straight. They are also of unequal length, 

 and the edge has the customary appearance of one sidedness. 



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Fig. 33. A massive blade of yellowish-brown color, belonging to the 

 two-beaked variety. The butt is narrow and deeply scalloped ; possibly 

 it was formerly mucronate at the apex and had a double countersunk 

 perforation. The beaks are mere bosses or projections. The concavi- 

 ties of the haft-space are very unequal, preparing us for the type further 

 on characterized as the bill-hook (Figs. 77-83). The edge is correspond 

 ingly modified. 



Length lOfg inches ; width 5 J inches. 



Fig. 34. A finely-polished, massive blade of dark, slate-brown color. 

 It is of the two-beaked type, but severely plain and symmetrical. The 

 butt is squarely truncated, and the beaks are without flutings of any 

 kind. There is a double countersunk perforation midway between the 

 beaks. No depressions are made for hafting, the lower part being 

 shaped like a tunic. Mr. im Thurn (Timehri, i, 263, Fig. 1), an interme- 

 diate form between this and the next examj)le. The crests are made 

 distinct by a median square notch, and there is just the least attempt to 

 produce the long, trapezoidal neck of our next figure. The most re- 

 markable feature about im Thurn's specimen is the engraving on the 

 face of a lozenge, having lunate figures above and on either side. Sim- 



