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illustrate the character and use of the Dordogne specimen, excepting that ivory has 

 been cut into somewhat similar shapes by peoples far removed in time and space. 

 Colonel Lane Fox, however, has shown us a wooden knife, from Central Africa, 

 of nearly similar outline, with crenulated edge and long handle (fig. 65) ; and he 



Fig. 67. 



Fig. 66. 



Fig. 68. 



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Fig. 65. Knife of very hard dark- red wood, described as a "Woman's Knife" of the Dor Tribe of Negroes. 



Brought to England by Mr. Petherick. It is notched along both edges, at nearly regular intervals 



of about | of an inch, at right angles to the line of the edge. One fourth of nat. size. (Col. A. 



Lane Fox's Collection.) 



Fig. (36. Notched Stone Implement. From Pennsylvania. (Col. A. Lane Fox's Collection.) 

 Fig. 07. Knife of Walrus Tusk (probably Esquimaux), notched at irregular intervals along the edge. It 



has a hole j inch deep in the back of the handle. One fourth of nat. size. (Col. A. Lane Fox's 



Collection.) 

 Fig. 68. Scored Stone Implement. From Denmark. (Col. A. Lane Fox's Collection.) 



suggests that this ivory specimen may have been an old knife, broken from its 

 handle, and subsequently bored at the tip for suspension. M. J. C. Buckley, Esq., 

 Member of the Celtic Society, has moreover informed us that a short broad knife 

 with a crenulated edge is commonly used in the South of Ireland to scrape roots 

 (potatoes, carrots, &c.) into a pulp for culinary purposes. 



