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[N.S.] 



directly cutting edge, and an eye-hole by which it may be sus- 

 pended. All Orissa styles of this type are very much alike, as a 

 glance down the following table shows. Their use extends to 



Midnapur 

 Vizagapatani. 



as 



Ganjam and 



District of Origin. 



Vizagapatam 

 Ganjam . . 

 Ganjam . . 

 Orissa 

 Ganjam . . 

 Ganjam . . 

 Midnapur 

 Cuttack . „ 

 Ganjam . . 

 Ganjam 

 Ganjam 

 Ganjam 

 Vizasrapatam 

 Ganjam . . 



Cuttack . . 

 Ganjam . , 



Average 



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• % 



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10757 

 10737 

 10744 



7240 

 10742 

 10740 



4243 



491 



10738 



10735 



10741 



10743 

 10752 



10739 



489 



10736 



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Length in 

 Inches. 



Weight in 

 Ounces. 



Distance 



in inches of 



the Centre of 



Gravity from 



the tip. 



The second series of pens on plate xxi is made up of the 



following : 



Fig. 



Fig. 



Fig. 



Fig. 

 Fig. 



37. 

 38. 



39. 

 40. 

 41. 



Type 24. 

 Type 25. 

 Type 26. 

 Type 27. 

 Type 28. 



Style No. 

 Style No. 

 Style No. 

 Style No. 



10687, 

 10700, 



10821, 



from the district of Malabar, 



from the district of Malabar, 



from th * district of Kurnool. 



from the district of Kurnool. 



10820, 

 Style No. 10784, from the district of Cuddapah. 



The eye-holes of the Orissa styles reappear in styles of 



Type 24. 



styles 



the same coast from Districts further 

 south (vide figs. 40 and 41) : but no 

 bbar coast exist in the Indian Museum 



which have these eye- holes in the knife blade. However, 

 Malabar has supplied the style figured as fig 37, which possess- 



the blade. This style is a 



below 



es two rows of six holes 

 long thin one such as one would have expected from the Dis- 

 tricts of the Kistna or Kurnool, its weight is 6| oz., its 

 length 17 inches, and its centre of gravity is 10 inches 



from the tip. 



