COLUMBIAN HISTORICAL EXPOSITION AT MADRID. 



377 



Nos, 2406, 20504, 20501, and others), glued in wooden handles, from Cali 

 fornia, with which it is interesting to compare the flint blades found in 



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Fig. 8. 



TRACINGS FROM MANUSCRIPTS DRAWN BY INDIANS IN ANCIENT YUCATAN AND MEXICO, SHOWING HOW 

 LARGE FLINT BLADES WERE MOUNTED. 



(a) Codex Porfino Diaz (Mexico) ; (ft) Codex Cortesianus (Yucatan); (c, d) Mexican MSS., Florence; (e) Sioux war club set with 



iron blade. 



a grave near Nashville, Tenn. (see Thurston s Antiquities of Tennessee, 

 pp. 228, 229), by Mr. Blunkall, near its deer-horn handle, and another 



Fig. 9. 



LARGE CHIPPED BLADES FROM THE UNITED STATES AND MEXICO. 



flint blade with traces of glue on its once socketed end, from a stone 

 cist in the same Indian cemetery. 



