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through oue series of forms to the graceful patu-patu; through another, 

 shouldered variety, to the chopper-kuife pattern. 



It must be repeated that no such designs of classitication are here 

 attributed to the ancient Antillians. They may or may not have been 

 dominated by them. We are only looking at three forces comi)ounding 

 and resolving to bring about a great variety of results, according to 

 the influence of each in any example. These forces are the nature and 

 original form of the pebble, the type-form into whose neighborhood the 

 artist aimed to come, and that sense arul pride of achievement which 

 rules in the savage and civilized bosom alike. 



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Fin. 48. 



Fig. 49. 



Fig. 48. An asymmetrical tongue-shaped blade of gray-brown color. 

 The butt is nearly flat. The groove is very shallow on the faces and 

 deeper on the sides. The latter are not curved alike, a feature quite 

 common in these West Indian specimens. From Canoe. 



Length, 4-i% inches; width, 2-i% inches. 



Fig. 49. A very common type, of chocolate-brown patina. The butt 

 is quite fl at and bounded by a sharp rim. The haft-space or neck has no 

 boundary below, and the sides are continuous with the edge. These fea- 



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