GUESDE COLLECTION OF ANTIQUITIES IN WEST INDIES. 811 



Fig. 104. A cylindrical mortar and pestle of brown color. The mor- 

 tar is cylindrical in form and a cup-sbaped depression occnpies the 

 (tenter. The pestle is of the dunih-bell pattern, very symmetrical in 





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form. This apparatus would serve much better as a snuft'muller than 

 for hard pounding. 



Height of mortar, 4 inches; length of pestle, 4fV inches. 



Fig. 165. A stone hammer, of 

 seal-brown patina. This style of 

 implement is generally called a 



pestle. But no one has ever seen ', ^ ,» 



a savage wasting" his time polish- o- ^^ -/'> ^ -^ ^^ 



ing a hard stone, and putting a 

 shoulder around the bottom for 

 the purpose of knocking it off the v 



first time he used it. On the other ^ 



hand, any one who will visit Yan- ' ^ ^ , 



couver Island may see such stones ;■ 



in use, to-day, for driving wedges , i;^. 



into cedar logs to split them. It :::^ v ■ - - \5 



is reasonable, therelbre, to call fe ■ v - -i^ 



this specimen a hammer. W -h-^ ■^'''■■:^:'-'^:;-:'--''' -^Mi 



Length, 7 j^ inches. ^; : ;-; , ^ '^ \^-^^^ 



Fig. IGG. A large grinding im- -i^ - .-- ,- 



plement, of blackish surface, re- 

 sembling a cook's rolling-pin. The central portion is convex on the 

 upper side, and flat beneath. The club-shaped ends were evidently to 

 be grasped in the hands. This is the rarest of forms. 



