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Stone Implements 



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The axes from Dominica are mainly without grooves for hafting, 

 but one of those in the museum at Roseau is girt by a deep furrow, 

 and another has deep notches in the margin like those from South 

 America. A unique specimen is flat or slightly curved on each 

 face, which is smoothly polished, recalling the hatchet found in 

 the Erin shell heap at Trinidad, in the mounds at St. Kitts, and 

 common in British 'Guiana (fig. 12). 



Fig. 12. — Ax with margin.il notchi's. 



Another excejitional stone implement from Dominica, likewise in 

 the museum, is rectangular, with the four angles continued into fish- 

 tail extensions, one of which is broken. In the middle of one face of 

 this specimen there is a pit, apparently the beginning of a perfora- 

 tion. There is another unique specimen in the Dominica Museiun in 

 the form of a flat stone about 9 inches long. The collection in 

 Dominica contains also one stone grinder resembling those from St. 

 Kitts, another from Tobago, and a perforated stone from Xevis. 



In the Nichols collection in the public library of Dominica there 

 were two flat stone implements, the remarkable feature of one of 



