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Title: The ancient stone implements, weapons, and ornaments, of Great Britain
Year: 1872 (1870s)
Authors: Evans, John, Sir, 1823-1908
Subjects: Stone age
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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the RioFrio, a tributary of the Rio Nueces, in Texas. The blade isof trachyte, entirely unground and most rudely chipped. Theclub-like haft is formed of some endogenous wood, and hasevidently been chopped into shape by means of stone tools. In these instances Clavigeros remark with regard to the copperlTor bronze axes of the Mexicans holds good ; they are like thoseof modern times, except that we put the handle in an eye of theaxe, while they put the axe in an eye of the handle. * Vol. iv. p. 3. t Kellers Lake Dwellings, En.?, ed., pi. x. 14. X Ibid., pi. xi. 1. § Wood, Nat. Hist, of Man, vol. i. pp. 321, 404. ;; Squier, Abor. Mon. of Now York, p. 180.H Quoted in Anc. Mon. cf Miss. Valley, p. 198. COMPARED WITH AXES OF MODERN SAVAGES. 141 Some of the stone and metallic axes in use among other modernsavages are hafted in much the same manner. In some instancesit would appear as if the hole for receiving the stone did notextend through the haft, but was merely a sort of socket—even a
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Fig. 95.—War-axe- Gaveoe Indians, Brazil. <§ notch. Such seems to be the case with a war-axe of the Gaveoe.Indians of Brazil in the British Museum, figured in the Pro-ceedings of the Society of Antiquaries,* and here, by permission,reproduced as Fig. 95. * 2nd S., vol. i. p. 102. 142 POLISHED CELTS. (CHAP. VI. The securis lapidea in sacrifices Indorum usitata, engravedby Aldrovandus,* seems to have the blade inserted in a socketwithout being tied, but in most axes of the same kind the blade issecured in its place by a plaited binding artistically interlaced.The stone axe said to be that of Montezuma II., preserved inthe Ambras Museum at Vienna, is a good example of the kind.fI have engraved it as Fig. 96, from a sketch I made in 1866.

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