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other adze-like implement known to me. The remaining 
petaloid adzes (unfigured here) are of the ordinary 
forms ; two were collected in St. Kitts by Captain 
ROGER, two in St. Lucia by Dr. Dennely ; three in 
Nevis, one by Mr. E. Connell, one by Miss J. HUGGINS, 
and one by an unrecorded collector. 
Figure 13 represents the single example in this col- 
lection of a wedge-shaped implement of the so-called 
Scandinavian type, i.e. with more or less flat and parallel* 
in place of the more usual convex, sides. I have already* 
given my reasons for supposing that these implements of 
Scandinavian type, were, in the West Indies at least, used, 
probably exclusively as the blades of battle-axes. This 
example, which is from St. Vincent, is the single repre- 
sentative in the collection now under review of such a 
stone battle-axe. 
Leaving the wedge-shaped implements we now turn 
to the ' pounders', or pestles, and the mullers. It is 
hardly necessary to point out that there is a difference 
between the ( pounder' or pestle, used for crushing hard 
substances by heavy blows, and the muller, used for rub- 
bing down more or less hard substances, as, e.g., a 
painter rubs or grinds his colours. Practically the mul- 
ler may be distinguished from the pestle in that its base 
is an almost perfectly level and smooth surface — worn 
smooth by much rubbing. The two forms of implements 
are however used to produce, by slightly different means, 
similar results. Both forms occur in surprising numbers, 
not only in the collection now under notice but also in 
other collections from the West Indies — in the Black- 
more and Christy Museums for instance. 
* " Among the Indians of British Guiana," London, 1883, p. 425 
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