West Indian Stone-Implements. hi 
these, therefore, those that were not, as many doubt- 
less were, intended to be merely kept as ornaments, must 
have been made as adze blades, not as wedges. Again, 
the very sharp pointed upper ends of the imple- 
ments of the petaloid shape, which I have elsewhere 
spoken of (see Timehri, Vol i. p. 266 as a specially Ja- 
maican type, and of which a very fine example is here fi- 
gured from Sir Thomas Graham BRIGGS' collection, 
(PI. IX, No. 7) are obviously not meant to be struck ; these 
too, therefore, must have been attached to handles and 
used as adzes. On the other hand, the only implements, 
apparently, of which one can say with certainty that 
they were made and used as wedges, are certain, fairly 
numerous,* examples in which the upper end has been 
brought to a flat surface, evidently to receive blows. 
Lastly as regards these distinctions between adzes, 
wedges, and battle-axes, it is hardly necessary to point 
out that though each was probably made for some definite 
purpose, yet the primitive, just as, but even more than, 
the modern man, probably often turned an implement 
intended for one, at least temporarily, to some other 
purpose. 
Six of Sir THOMAS GRAHAM BRIGGS' adzes are of the 
more elaborate ' Carib' type ; and these are all figured here 
(Plates 7 & 8.) The illustrations will show their nature 
better than could words. Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 5 are all 
from St. Vincent, and were procured for their present 
owner by Mr. E. B. GRIFFITH, Treasurer of that island. 
* These undoubted wedges I find to be fairly numerous in my Guiana 
collection ; but I am surprised to find that I have at present only one 
(a very fine one) {rem the West Indies (St. Lucia). 
