14G PERFORATED STONES. 



Closely resembling these is the weapon* from an ancient grave at 

 Ancon, Peru, of which a representation is given on Plate X, Fig. 1. This 

 club is provided with a handle of hard wood, which is twenty-one inches 

 long and seven-eighths of an inch thick at its larger end, from which 

 it tapers gradually to a sharp smooth point. Between three and four 

 inches from the thick end, a bronze (or copper?) head with six rays is 

 attached and held in place by narrow strips of cloth, now evidently some- 

 what changed from their original position. The bronze head has a straight 

 perforation a little larger in diameter than the wooden handle, so that it 

 requires the thickness of the cloth to keep it in place. This bronze head 

 is about one inch thick, and the rays are of an equal length of one inch, 

 with flattened sides and rounded points, some of which are a little battered 

 by use. With a weapon like this a powerful blow could be given, and 

 although the pointed end of the handle has suggested the possibility of its 

 having been used as a digging-stick, it seems more likely that its primary 

 use was as a weapon. 



Mr. E. G. Squierf has figured a similar six-pointed bronze club-head 

 in his description of articles found in ancient graves at Chimu, of which he 

 says : " Several varieties of bronze war-clubs are found here as elsewhere." 

 On one of the two plates of antiquities in Gay's History of Chili there 

 is represented an elaborately made club-head of bi-onze, which has seven 

 projections. 



In the large private archaeological collection belonging to Mr. William 

 S. Vaux, of Philadelphia, there is a singular club-head of copper or bronze 

 from Peru. This is 3i inches in diameter and § of an inch thick, measured 

 through the hole, which is straight and 1 inch in diameter. Its marked 

 peculiarity consists in the six rounded projections, each of which repre- 

 sents a human head, the face on one side and the hair on the other, which 

 features are reversed on alternating projections. 



In the American Museum, New York, there is a seven-pointed club- 

 head made of stone, also from Peru. This is 5^ inches in extreme diameter 

 and If inches thick. The hole is slightly contracted in its centre, and is 

 lif inches in diameter. 



*Peabody Museum, No. 8767, presented by Mr. Alexander Agassiz. tPeru, p. 177, 1877. 



