Antiquities of the southern Indians, particularly of the Georgia tribes . ndians, andto such various uses were the same implements oftenand necessarily applied, that it is almost impossible tosubject them to a rigid classification. Professor Joseph Jones discovered in a sepulchralmound on the bank of the Cumberland River, oppositethe city of Nashville, Tennessee, an axe of this classwith a stone handle. The entire implement was cutout of a solid piece of greenstone (see Plate XII.).The handle is thirteen inches and a half in length, aninch and a half wide, and about an inch thick. At thelower
Antiquities of the southern Indians, particularly of the Georgia tribes . ndians, andto such various uses were the same implements oftenand necessarily applied, that it is almost impossible tosubject them to a rigid classification. Professor Joseph Jones discovered in a sepulchralmound on the bank of the Cumberland River, oppositethe city of Nashville, Tennessee, an axe of this classwith a stone handle. The entire implement was cutout of a solid piece of greenstone (see Plate XII.).The handle is thirteen inches and a half in length, aninch and a half wide, and about an inch thick. At thelower end is a hole for the suspension and convenienttransportation of the weapon when not in actual axe is about six inches long, two inches and aquarter wide at the cutting edge, and an inch and ahalf broad at the other end. It is three-quarters of aninch thick, and in general manyof the stone celts at one time in such common useamong the Southern Indians. This relic possesses spe-cial interest and value, and may be regarded as per- Plate XI!.. AM PHOTO-LITHOGRAPHIC CO HY.\ OSBOMBS PROCESS PERFORATED AXES. 281 petuating the manner in which axes of this class werefrequently hafted for domestic and perhaps warlikepurposes. An implement precisely similar in material andconstruction was taken from a grave-mound in York o District, South Carolina, about ten years ago. Eelicsof this description are very rare, and were fashioned atthe expense of much time and labor. Both of themwere carefully polished in every part. We acceptthem, not only as curious mementos of a shadowypast, but as enduring proofs of the peculiar mode inwhich implements of this class were mounted and car-ried by these primitive peoples. It would really appear that the ancient workman,as though mindful of the curiosity which would existin the minds of coming generations touching the cus-toms and manufactures of an age without letters orestablished traditions, designed by this permanentlegacy
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