GITESDE COLLECTION OF ANTIQUITIES IN WEST INDIES. 775 



There are several chopper-blades in the collection, reuiindiug one of 

 the Gaveoe Indians of Brazil, mentioned in Dint Chap. p. 141, quoted 

 from Proc. Soc. Antiquaries, 128 S, vol. 1. 



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Fig. 74. 



Length, 4 inches ; greatest width, 4-^^ inches; least width, 1 j-q inches. 



Fig. 75. A very beautiful blade of light brown color. The butt has 

 a sharply -defined ragged border. The terraced appearance before 

 noticed is here visible, but curtailed, the middle ridge not being con- 

 tinuous. The neck slopes gracefully to the edge, the extremities of 

 which rise out of the sides so as to give the effect of a thin edge in- 

 serted. There is" not the slightest defect in this example. 



Length, 43^0 inches ; width, 4^^ inches. 



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Fio. 75. 



