. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. 242 SAVAGE WEAPONS AT THE CENTENNIAL quainted with metal, retain old habits, and among them the use of stone implements, in ceremonial uses perhaps, rather than in the business of life. That stone should linger after the advent of metal is not surprising when we reflect that the stone battle-axe- was used by many of the .Anglo-Saxons at Hastings, and some of the Germans were armed with it at so late a period as the "Thirty
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. 242 SAVAGE WEAPONS AT THE CENTENNIAL quainted with metal, retain old habits, and among them the use of stone implements, in ceremonial uses perhaps, rather than in the business of life. That stone should linger after the advent of metal is not surprising when we reflect that the stone battle-axe- was used by many of the .Anglo-Saxons at Hastings, and some of the Germans were armed with it at so late a period as the "Thirty Years* ; Fig. 50 shows oneof the articles generally catalogued as a "spade-like ; It was possibly an axe adapted to pass through the handle and be secured by a Lashing of sinew or raw-hide. Fig. 51 shows five ancient implements obtained in —/S various parts of the United States, from mounds and eisew here ; a, b, and d are from Louisiana ; e is from Iowa ; c not noted. The three last examples are double- headed ceremonial axes, and do not materially differ from examples in the figure following, excepting in not being perforated for the handle. The frequency of the omission in- dicates that the two methods of mounting were simultaneously em- ployed. This brings us to the fourth class- perforated axes, which arc consid- ered by Sir John Lubbock as prob- ably characteristic of the early me- tallic period in It was long thought that the per- foration of the axe-head did uot occur until the implement came to bemadeof metal. It is true that the labor of boring in stone without the aid of metal and the weakening of so frangible a material might ex- clude that mode of mounting; but it must be recollected that time is of no moment to a savage, never hav- ing read Solomon or Dr. Watts, and mindianmou n, d-c. not taking lessons from insects— which are simply a nuisance and point no moral in Africa. The examples pf perforated stone axes at
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