36. On Two-Shouldered Stone Implements from Assam. 
By Hem Cuanpra Das-Goupta. 
In the collection of prehistoric antiquities of the Indian 
Museum, there are two stone implements which attracted my 
notice on account of their peculiar shape. It is proposed to 
describe them in this short note. 
Both these implements were obtained in Assam. One of 
during his viceroyalty in India. These implements were pre- 
sented to Lord Curzon by Mr. Penny, a tea-planter of Bishnath, 
and were all obtained in course of digging a ditch on his estate 
at Bishnath (Tezpur).. The second specimen (No. 6114) was 
obtained from Konarpara in Cachar. 
Both the adzes, as the accompanying plate shows, are of 
the shouldered type and of small size. The chisel-end of one 
(6114) is very marked and though one of the shoulders is prac- 
tically gone, the other is fairly preserved and gives an idea of 
the peculiarity of the type. An examination of the specimen 
also shows that only one surface has been ground down to 
produce the cutting edge. The other (6103) also appears to 
be crudely fashioned like a chisel and the shoulder is not so 
specimens obtained from Assam. 
After the publication of Theobald’s paper the late Mr. Ball 
described two adzes of the Burmese type, * found in Dhalbhum 
(Singbhum),—the similarity of which was very striking. Ball 
was uncertain of the origin of the implements, 1Le., whe her 
they were indigenous or imported, —though there was nothing 
in the petrology of the rocks used in their manufacture to 
dissuade one from believing in their being of local make. | : 
In an interesting communication to the Asiatic Society 0 
1 Mem. Geol. Surv. Ind., Vol. X, pt. 2, pp. 167-171. 
® Proc. As. Soc. Bengal, 1875, pp. 118-122. 
