. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. Fig-iire 10. Figure 11. saw ; we find many inserted in a fragment of horn, which were probably used in felling trees or cutting their branches, (Fig. 12.) % Figure 12. If these utensils cannot rival those of the age of stone in the north of Europe, if we possess none of those poniards artistically wrought which occur in the collections of Denmark and Mecklenburg, nor those elegantly formed knives of silex which recall the finest produced by
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. Fig-iire 10. Figure 11. saw ; we find many inserted in a fragment of horn, which were probably used in felling trees or cutting their branches, (Fig. 12.) % Figure 12. If these utensils cannot rival those of the age of stone in the north of Europe, if we possess none of those poniards artistically wrought which occur in the collections of Denmark and Mecklenburg, nor those elegantly formed knives of silex which recall the finest produced by the age of bronze, it is not the less ti'ue that we can realize a degree of emulation as having existed at this remote epoch between the inhabitants of different stations. The objects collected in the lakes of western Switzerland display something of finish, of care in the de- tails, which is not to be I'ecoguized to the same degree in the stations of eastern Switzerland. This observation is particularly suggested by the symmetry and pleasing forms of certain objects which would have been equally as efficient without being so finished. The hammers are the articles of most el(>gance ; they are always formed of hard stone, generally of serpentine, enlarged in the middle in order that tlie hole destim-d to receive the handle may not render them too fragile; one of the extremities is rounded or plane—the other con- tracted more or less to an edge, and sometimes to a point. The hole itself is often irregular, being narrowed within, as an aperture would be if alternately. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents; United States National Museum. Report of the U. S. National Museum; Smithsonian Institution. Report of the Secretary. Washington : Smithsonian Instit
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