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In the Hupa Valley, northern California, the locality of the implement 

 last described, we have seen it with a strip of otter skin for a handle 

 (PI. cii, Fig. 78), but others to the number of six or eight were also col- 

 lected by Captain Eay, which were inserted in a broad wooden handle and 

 fastened with bitumen (PI. cii, Figs. 75, 76, 77). Some were leaf-shaped 

 and some were with a tang; some were found with handle attached, while 

 others bore the traces of bitumen, but were without a handle. The 

 other locality is southern California in the region and islands about Santa 



Fig. 16. 

 Leaf-shaped Implements. 



Barbaraandtheadjacent portions of Mexico. Here they have been found 

 in burial places which appear to be, without doubt, prehistoric. The 

 great archseologic interest of these leaf-shaped implements is that in 

 Europe they belong to the paleolithic period, and are the type of the 

 Solutreen epoch. They have been called in France feuille de laurier, 

 laurel leaf. In America but a slight consideration has been given to 

 them. They have always been considered as Indian, and the possibility 

 of their belonging to the paleolithic period has never been contemplated. 

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