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thought, by Mr. Rau, to have been used for agricultural pur- 
poses. 
No. 2 is a thin ovate implement of chert, pointed at both 
ends, and flattened on one surface ; it is slightly rubbed (arti- 
ficially) towards the middle on the more convex side. It 
measures eight inches and a half in length, its greatest breadth 
is two inches and three quarters, and it is three quarters of an 
inch in thickness. No. 3 is a chisel of greenstone. No. 4 is a 
greenstone hatchet of unusual form; it is flat on the under sur- 
face, and pointed at the butt end ; it measures ten inches and 
three quarters in length, one inch and seven-eighths in breadth, 
and is one inch and a half in thickness. No. 5 is a hatchet of 
compact greenstone (aphanite); it is of the usual wedge-shaped 
form, and measures fourteen inches in length, three inches and 
a half in breadth, and two inches in thickness. No. 6 is a 
greenstone hatchet. No. 7 is a hatchet of felspathic green- 
stone. Nos. I to 7 are from various parts of the United 
States. 
Nos. 8 and 9 are hatchets of compact greenstone (aphanite), 
from Virginia. Nos. i o to 1 3 are stone hatchets from New Jersey. * 
No. 13 is unfinished. No. 14 is a stone hatchet from Maryland. 
No. 15 is a nicely-finished hatchet of felspathic greenstone, 
from Alabama; it measures nine inches in length. Nos. 16 and 
17 are greenstone hatchets, from Florida. No. 18 is a hatchet- 
shaped implement of felspathic greenstone, from Missouri. 
The part usually brought to a cutting edge has, in this speci- 
men, been purposely blunted, the surface being nearly half an 
inch in breadth. Marks of grinding are still to be seen upon 
this surface. No. 19 is a hatchet of haematite, from Warsaw, 
Illinois. Nos. 18 and 19 were shown in the Paris Exhibition, 
1867. 
Probably, many wedge-shaped stone hatchets were not in- 
tended to be hafted, but were for use in the hand. Loskiel, 
however, says of the Delawares : — Their hatchets are wedges 
made of hard stones, six or seven inches in length, sharpened 
at the edge, and attached to a wooden handle." He adds : — 
" They are not used to fell trees, but only to peel them, and kill 
their enemies." 
One way in which wedge-shaped stone hatchets were mounted 
may be seen from the portrait of Black Elk," which is placed 
near Case A 43, and who is represented with one of these 
* Nos. lo and 12 are of felstone. No. 13 is of micaceous greenstone. 
