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ISLAND CtTLTOKB AKEA OF AMERICA 



[ETH. ANN. 3i 



larged into a scroll at one end, while the opi30site extremity has a 

 flat tool-shaped edge. It is evident that the enlarged scroll was 

 so shaped in order to fit into the pahn of the hand, thus enlarging 

 the handle and giving an opportunity to grasjj the implement fii-mly 

 while it was being used. 



The following figures (£', F, H^ I) represent other forms of sacri- 

 ficial knives whose curved ends have been enlarged into handles or 

 disks, evidently better adapted for grasping in the hand. A common 

 feature of these Jinives is a notch in the peiiphery, which in two in- 

 stances (•/, A') becomes quite 

 prominent. The fii-st of these 

 scroll-shaped knives to be men- 

 tioned was a fragment illus- 

 tiated in the author's report on 

 the Aborigines of Porto Rico.*"' 

 At the time this report was 

 written the complete form was 

 unknown. The first unbroken 

 siJecimen of the type of sac- 

 rificial knife was described by 

 Mr. T. A. Joyce in his account 

 of prehistoric implements from 

 the West Indies in the British 

 Museum."" 



The specimens figured in 

 plate 29, /, -7, K, resemble sac- 

 rificial knives in some particu- 

 lars, but differ from them as 

 follows : The inner edge of these 

 straififht, 



Fig. 3,- 



-Eiiied ax from Guadeloupe, 

 inches.) 



(11.2 



the two being 

 form 



specimens is almost 

 the other cimed 



separated by a shallow notch, imparting to the implement a 



resembling an ax with sharpened edge on one side. 



Eared Axes 



All the members of this type of stone implements possess two ex- 

 tensions, one on each side of the head (fig. 3). These projections 

 sometimes resemble forks, and at times impart to the head of the 

 implement the form of a fishtail. In other specimens they take the 

 form of simple rounded knobs, recalling incipient horns. The body 

 of the specimen shown in plate 30, />, is perforated. As a rule, as in 

 plate 30, /, the groove for hafting is absent in implements of this type, 



"Twenty-flfth Anu. Ri-i)t. Bur. AmcT. Ethn., pi. xxiii, 1;. 

 "Journ. Roy. Anthrop. Inst., vol. x.\xvii, p. 418. 



