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Ancient Javanese Hemains. 
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the Island, but chiefly in the west. They far surpassed anything 
I have seen in my limited experience. Some of the hatchet-like 
weapons were fully ten inches long, beautifully finished and polished. 
There were also examples of spear-heads and axes in an unfinished 
state, roughed out with conclioidal fractures, very like the represent¬ 
ations of those articles which have lately made such a stir in Europe, 
as bearing on the antiquity of man. The most curious was the 
weapon represented (in Fig. 14) of which there were several examples 
beautifully finished, even the lines marking the bevil on each side 
being curves of perfect symmetry. The use of this weapon is a prob¬ 
lem, as well as the question how a people ignorant of metal tools 
could arrive at such perfect workmanship. 
It is worth mentioning that in every instance the back end of the 
weapon was left rough and unwrought. 
Mr. Kinder Yan Camarecq’s collection contained many bronzes 
and other objects of the greatest interest, and some specimens of 
wretched forgeries of bronzes at which the Javanese try their hands 
to take in strangers. I will only mention two of the articles in his 
collection besides the celts. One was a small bell decorated in the 
usual Buddhist style, but the handle of which by some strange 
chance was formed into a genuine Iona cross. # The other was a very 
curious implement of some white metal, the use of which is unknown. 
It is shown in Fig. 16. It is 5 or 6 inches long, perforated 
throughout, and the bottom furrowed from end to end by parallel 
grooves. The natives have no idea of its use, but it is said to have 
some distant resemblance to a tool used in Java to polish the paper 
of the country. 
* I regret that I have lost my sketch of this curious bell. That given in 
Fig. 15 is from recollection. 
