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or it might have been fastened with others along a stick or staff to make a con- 

 tinuous cutting edge, like an Aztec " Mahquahuitl " *, or other 



" Ugly stone-set things, 



Most like to knives." W. MORRIS'S Jason, p. 180. 



Such triangular and other short flint flakes, dressed with an angular or curved 

 edgef, are common in the Dordogne Caves, and are not wanting wherever stone 

 implements abound. Seepages 117, 119, 120, 155. 



Fig. 1. Irregular oblong ; brownish-grey. 



Fig. 2. A dark-coloured subtriangular flake, dressed to a curved cutting edge on 



one margin. 



Fig. 3. Brownish grey ; subtriangular; the back is awkward for handling, pos- 

 sibly from inadvertent fracture. 



Fig. 4. Dark grey ; subquadrangular ; with a nearly straight edge, and a natural 

 back ready to the hand. 



Fig. 5. Dark grey; subtriangular, with curved edge. 



Fig. 6. Brownish grey ; acute-ovate ; carefully dressed, so that the elliptical curve 

 of the cutting edge corresponds with that of the natural portion of the flint 

 nodule, which remains as the back of the Implement, fitting easily to the hand. 



e These stone-edged War-clubs are described and illustrated in the ' Smithsonian Contributions to Know- 

 lodge,' vol. i. p. 211, note, fig. 101 ; vol. ii. p. 180, figs. 62-64; in Col. A. Lane Fox's Lecture " On Primi- 

 tive Warfare " (Journ. United Service Instit. 1807), p. 25, pi. 6. figs. 78-80 ; Evans's 'Ancient Stone Imple- 

 ments ' &c. (1872), p. 265 ; and the works to which they refer. 



t For such flakes having a semicircular edge, see Evans's ' Stone Implements ' &c. pp. 270 et seq., figs. 

 204 &c., and pp. 454, 470, 562, &c. Triangular dressed flakes are shown at p. 454, fig. 395, and p. 493. 

 fig. 425, of the same work. 



See also 'Materiaux pour 1'histoire de 1'Homme,' vol. v. 1869, p. 461, pi. 29. figs. 4, 5, 10, 11, &c., illus- 

 trative of this kind of dressed flake from Chez-Poure (Brive). 



} Broader than the figure. 





