120 TlMEHRI. 
tangular instead of oval. The resemblance to this type 
is, however, probably accidental, and the implement is 
probably an adze, not a battle axe. To another, but 
quite accidental, feature in this particular example I 
shall return later. The examples numbered 30, 31, 32 
(from Barbados), 34 and 35 (from Nevis) all fall easily 
enough into the class of wedge-shaped tools ; they 
differ, however, somewhat remarkably, the one from the 
other, in point of size, the smallest, and in this their 
case is parallel with that of many stone implements, 
seeming almost too small for practical use. 
Fig. 35 represents a shell implement (from Nevis), 
about which I had at first considerable doubt. 
For it resembles almost exactly some jaguar-teeth, form- 
ing a necklace which, taken from the neck of a Guiana 
Indian of the present day, hangs on my wall. The upper, 
or blunt, end is even partially (for the opposite holes do not 
really meet) bored, just as the jaguar-teeth, used for neck- 
laces, are completely. It was only after close examination 
of the material of this implement or ornament — it was 
probably used for both purposes— that I was convinced 
it was not a jaguar's tooth but an artificial thing of shell. 
It has, however, I think obviously been made in imita- 
tion of a jaguar's tooth, and was meant to be suspended 
as an ornament in the same way. That the perforation, 
starting from both sides, is not bored completely through, 
may be either because the maker abandoned his intention 
of hanging it from his neck before he had completed the 
bore, or because it was suspended by a bent piece of 
metal or curved wood, one of the two ends of which en- 
tered each hole. 
Some of these shell implements — No. 29 is an excel- 
