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PAPERS RELATING TO ANTHROPOLOGY. 



States. By this it is not meant that the maker of the implement was an 

 agriculturist. There are slight indentations at the sides for hafting, and 

 the edge is slightly worn off on what we may be allowed to call the out- 

 side. 



Length, G-^^ inches ; width, 4-i% inches. 



Fig. 8. A chipped blade of brown color on the weathered portions. 

 There can be no question, from the general outline of this rude speci- 

 men that we have here blocked out, what was designed to be a finished 





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Fig. 8. 



blade with small butt (Figs. 193, 191). The edge chippiugs exhibiting the 

 natural black color of the stone, seem to be much more recent than the 

 rest, and may have resulted from accidental breakage. 

 Length, 6 inches ; greatest width, 83%. 



II, POLISHED BLADES AYITHOUT HAFT-GROOVES. 



The typical " celt" of the West Indies is the almond-shaped variety, 

 called " petaloid " by Mr. im Thurn, so distinctly recognizable that 

 John Evans receives an alleged Scottish specimen of the same shape 

 with suspicion. But this petaloid or almond variety runs into other 

 forms, notably what we might call the Papuan type. The petaloid 

 type was doubtless inserted or " perserted " ; but the flatter Papuan 

 form was always inserted, and served with sennit or other twine. The 

 hafts also were of different shapes ; that of the former was straight, 

 that of the latter lambdoidal. In certain portions of the Antilles the 

 greatest abundance of shell chisels are found, and it would not be mar- 

 velous to discover in stone implements a close resemblance to some of 

 these. 



When we remember that we are speaking of a maritime people who 

 had the greatest abundance of ship timber at hand and leisure to work 

 it, and that they had the very best volcanic rocks to convert into imi^le- 

 ments, we have only to turn either to New Guinea or Queen Charlotte 



