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The shank is never perforated like the European stone ax for the 

 insertion of a handle, although, as we shall presently see, it is in 

 one instance decorated with an incised figure. The body of the ax 

 may bo circular: when seen in profile it is elongated, oval, asymmet- 

 rical, and sometimes perforated near the edges. The grooved ax is 







Fig. 20, — Finely polished stone Implement. (5.1 inches.) 



very rare in collections from the Antilles, there being only a dozen 

 specimens in the Heye collection. All of these are from the Lesser 

 Antilles, the majority from those islands midway between Trinidad 

 and Anegada Passage. The few known specimens recall, in form 

 160G.5S°— 34 ETH— 22 10 



