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doubtmay rest on the preceding examples, there is none here. The Na- 

 tional Museum at Washington contains a large number of polished seri^en- 

 tine hammers of precisely this shape. The great red cedar abounds 

 from Sitka along the Pacific Coast to California. The various tribes of 

 this coast, Thlinkits, Haida, Chimsiau, Bilhoula, formerly felled these 

 trees with stone implements, and by means of a long line of hard- wood 

 wedges split the logs into planks to be used in their houses and furni- 

 ture. These wedges were skillfully driven by means of these serpen- 

 tine hammers. The ancient Antillians felled large trees and both built 

 houses and excavated dug-out boats. There is little doubt, therefore, 

 that we have here the ancient carpenter's hand-maul. 

 Length, 3^ inches. 



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FlG. 149. 



,;-<-;n;-< -. Fig. 150. A grooved club-head, widely exca- 



vated around three-fourths of its circumference. 

 ,•; Stones wrapped with sinew or leather and 

 lashed to a wooden handle were a common 

 weapon with the ancient Dakotas. 

 Length 2-^^ inches. 

 Figs. 151-154. Four grooved discoidal stones 



p ; of unknown function. Comparing things un- 



^iG.150. known with things known we maj' declare 



these to have been club-heads or sinkers or playing stones or even ear- 

 studs. 



Fig. 155. A flat, grooved club-head shaped like a two-edged battle-ax. 

 The groove is very sharp, or triangular in section, and is deeply cut in. 

 Length, 4-1% inches. 



Fig. 156. A spindle-shaped implement, perhaps a rolling-pin, of brown 

 color. In Yucatan the natives now use a roller of this shape, but of 



