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REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1896. 



POLISHED STONE HATCHETS — SCANDINAVIA. 



The polished stone liatcbets from Scandinavia are unique. Many of 

 them are diftereat in form and size from those of other countries. They 

 are larj;er and smoother, and liave been found in such numbers in the 

 various stages of manufacture, showing the method so admirably, and 

 arc such fine examples of art work that it would be improper to omit 

 them. Plate 30 represents two of these hatchets. They are of the 

 Hint belonging to the country. Fig. a represents a hatchet chipped to 

 form, scpiare in section, with poll and edge indicated, and show\s the 

 process of chipping completed as indicated by fig. 96, while fig. h shows 

 the process of grinding completed as indicated by figs. 98 and 99. 

 Many of these implements are of large size, 10 inches in length not 



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Fig. U7. 



OniNDINO OR I'OLISITING STONE FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF HATCHETS. 



Hiawasseo Iliver, Polk County, Tennessee. 



Cat, No. 65712, U.S.N. M. | n.itur.-il siie. 



being unusual. Their size, with their elegance and delicacy of chipping 

 and grinding, so increases the diflBculty of their manufacture as to take 

 them definitely into the realm of fine art. 



POLISHED STONE HATCHETS — HANDLED. 



The frontispiece represents the method ot handling these hatchets. 

 Similar specimens have been found In almost every part of the world, 

 though not in great plenty. The American Museum of Na»tural Uistory 

 possesses one, but the United States National Museum is the fortunate 

 possessor of two. One of these comes from Syracuse, New York, col- 

 lected by Mr. Charles M. Crounse, the other gathered by Mr. Byron E. 

 Dodge, of Richfield, ( lenesee County, Michigan. Other specimens have 

 been found in different prehistoric countries, sometimes with the handle 

 or its fragments attached, and again with the evident marks of a 



