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MURDOCH. ] ADZES. Al 
made. These are fitted to a very old bone body, which when whole 
ras not over 5 inches long, and was probably part of a little bone 
adz. There is no evidence that these people ever used flint adzes. 
Fig. 141, No. 89872 [785], isintroduced to show how the native has utilized 
an old cooper’s adz, of which the eye was probably broken, by fitting it 
with a bone body. 
Fic. 140.—Hafted adz of bone and flint. 
While the adzes already described appear to have been the predomi- 
nating types, another form was sometimes used. Fig. 142, No.89874 [964], 
from Nuwtk, represents this form. The haft is of whale’s rib, 1 foot 
long, and the head of bone, apparently whale’s scapula, 5-6 inches long 
and 2-8 inches wide on the edge. There is an adze in the Museum from 
the Mackenzie River region with a steel blade of precisely the same 
pattern. That adzes of this pattern sometimes had stone blades is 
Fig. 141.—Old cooper's adz, rehafted. 
probable. No. 59540 [1317], is a clumsily made commercial tool of this 
type, with a small head of greenish slate. It has an unusually straight 
haft, which is disproportionately long and thick. , 
All these adzes, ancient and modern, are hafted upon essentially the 
same pattern. The short curved haft, the shape of which is sufficiently 
well indicated by the figures, seems to have been generally made of 
whale’s rib or reindeer antler, both of which have a natural curve suited 
