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In the object shown in plate 10, A", one half is larger than the 

 other, suggesting a head and blade. There is, however, no encir- 

 cling groove. 



In plate 16, C, F, there is an approach to an encircling groove and 

 a head distinct from the blade. The top of the head of E is indented 

 and the right side flattened, perhaps broken. 



Plate 16, G, represents a similar implement with two bevels on 

 the head, which impart a triangidar shape to this region of the 

 implement when seen in profile. 



The head in plate 16, H, is rectangular and extended; in plate 

 16, /, it is concave on the top. 



In plate 17, ^4. the head has a point on the apex, the outline of 

 the blade being circular. The implement, plate 17, B^ has a ferrule 

 near the head extremity, the apex being flattened, and in plate 17, (\ 

 the apex is concave. Plate 17, D, has a broad, flat apex, which in 

 plate 17, E, is incurved, forming earlike extensions. 



AXES WITH CAPS 



There are in the TTeye collection several specimens which, when 

 seen in profile, resemble a petaloid celt with a cap perched on the 

 pointed extremit}'. The rim of this cap seen on the margin over- 

 hangs the surface of the blade, forming a low ridge, which is the 

 upper rim of the groove, by which probably the handle was pre- 

 vented from slipping over the pointed head of the ax. The simplest 

 form of this type, shown in plate 17, F, has, in addition to the cap, 

 a secondary groove situated just below it. Another form of head is 

 shown in plate 17, G. In plate 17, H, there are indications of two 

 similar supplemental encircling grooves, pronounced on the margins 

 as notches. In this specimen the top of the head has become more or 

 less flattened and slightly rounded, its end being cut oft so that it is 

 parallel with the groove, instead of being continued into a point. 

 A like feature appears on the side of the ax, plate 17, /, where there 

 are indications of three supplementary notches, parallel to each 

 other on the flat caplike structure on the end of the implement. 

 There was probably still another notch in that portion of the head 

 which is now broken off. 



In plate 18. A, we have. a typical form of ax without cap, but with 

 head broad ; one edge straight, the other curved. 



The apical cap of plate 18, B, is more globular in form than the 

 last, and is separated into two regions by an apical furrow, absent 

 in plate 18, .1. While the blade of this ax is destitute of the sym- 

 metry ordinarily found in this type, the groove of the handle 

 forms a true caplike head, a distinctive feature of the group. The 



