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Tasmanian aborigines put their implements^ warns us that such 

 is not necessarily the case. Moreover, some of the highest 

 authorities, notably Worthington Smith* are of opinion that 



FIG. 6. — TONGUE-SHAPED IMPLEMENT froni Swanscombc. 

 Drawn by J. P. Johnson. Actual size. 



they were not bafted in any way, but were merely grasped in the 



hand. 



A characteristic example is that shewn in Fig. 5. I imagine 

 it to have been bound round, at the upper end, by a withe, and 



3 See E B. Taylor " On the Tasmanians as representatives of Palaeolithic Man.' 

 Journ. Anthrop Instihite, vol. xxiii. 1894. 



4 Worthington G. Smith, Man the FrimcEval Savage. London, 1894. 



