The ancient stone implements, weapons, and ornaments, of Great Britain (1872) (14598533268)

Identifier: stoneimplementsw00evaniala (find matches)
Title: The ancient stone implements, weapons, and ornaments, of Great Britain
Year: 1872 (1870s)
Authors: Evans, John, Sir, 1823-1908
Subjects: Stone age -- Great Britain Great Britain -- Antiquities
Publisher: London : Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation



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presents an adze from theSandwich Islands. The jade adzes of the NewZealanders are hafted in asomewhat similar manner;but the hafts are often beau-tifully carved and inlaid. Afine example is in the Black-more Museum, and a handlein the Christy Collection.One of them is engraved bythe Eev. J. G. Wood.^: Theaxe to the left, in Fig.104, may be from Polynesiaalso, but is of some com-Fig.io3.-Adze-Clalam Indians. monstonc. The axcs from Mangaia, so common in collections, exhibit great skill in themounting and in the carving of the handles. Some have beenengraved by the Rev. J. G. Wood. § In some instances the ligaments for attaching the stone bladeagainst the handle pass through a hole towards the end of theblade. A North American adze in the Ethnological Museum atCopenhagen is thus mounted, the cord being apparently of gut. * Froc, vol. ii. pp. 423, 424; Wilsons Preh. Man, vol. i. p. 156. t Nat. Hi8t. of Man, vol. ii. p. 32. X Op. cit., vol. ii. p. 20L § Op. cit., vol. ii. pp. 369, 373.
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COMPARED WITH ADZES OF MODERN SAVAGES. 149 A similar metliod of mounting their adzes, by binding themagainst the haft, was in use among the Egyptians.* Althoughit is extremely probable that some of the ancient stone adzes ofother countries may have been mounted in this manner, therehave not, so far as I am aware, been any of the handles of thisclass found. I have, however, two Swiss celts of Lydian stone, andof rectangular section, found at Nussdorf and Sipplingen, in theUeberlinger See, and on the flatter of the two faces of each there