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NORTH AMERICA. 
Mexico. ' 
Stone Implements and other Objects from Mexico are 
SHOWN IN Cases A 42, C 29, C 30, E 7, 
E q, AND H II. 
A 42. 
No. 6 (S and D, 434) and No. 7, Stone hatchets. No. 7 was 
presented to the Collection by the Trustees of the Christy 
Museum. No. 8 (S and D, 438), Flint arrow-head. No. g 
(S and D, 564), Greenstone weapon; probably a stick was 
passed through the drilled hole, and it was used as a club. 
Somewhat similar drilled stones are used for arming clubs by 
the natives of the Salomon Islands. No. 14, Grooved stone 
axe. 
C 29. 
All the specimens in this case are from Mexico. The objects 
upon Tablets i to 13 were presented to the Collection by the 
Trustees of the Christy Museum. 
Upon Tablets i to 7, 9 3 and d, 10, 11, and 14, are obsidian 
flakes. Such flakes as these were used by the Mexicans for 
arming wooden spears and swords, and for daggers. Some of 
their spears and arrows were tipped with copper or bronze, but 
the greater part of their weapons were armed with flakes of 
obsidian. 
C 29. 
Upon Tablets S, g a and c, are obsidian cores. 
Upon Tablets 11 d, iz h, c, e,/, g, it, a and b, arc obsidian 
arrow-heads. 
