Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution .. . Fig. 38.—Grooved ax, Keokuk Fig. 39.—Grooved ax, showing adze form, type. Eoss county, Ohio; and two of granite, highly polished, grooved onfaces and one side, with backs flat, from Kanawha valley, the axes wider at the edge than at any point above (of which thespecimen illustrated in figure 41, of granite, from agrave at Kingsport, Tennessee, may be taken ;is atype,) there are one of diorite from Kanawha valley,West Virginia, which seems tohave been of ordinary pattern butbroken and r
Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution .. . Fig. 38.—Grooved ax, Keokuk Fig. 39.—Grooved ax, showing adze form, type. Eoss county, Ohio; and two of granite, highly polished, grooved onfaces and one side, with backs flat, from Kanawha valley, the axes wider at the edge than at any point above (of which thespecimen illustrated in figure 41, of granite, from agrave at Kingsport, Tennessee, may be taken ;is atype,) there are one of diorite from Kanawha valley,West Virginia, which seems tohave been of ordinary pattern butbroken and redressed to its pres-ent form; and from Savannah,Georgia, one of uniform taper withdiagonal groove, and one wideningirregularly until the blade is fullytwice the width of the poll,diagonal Many, if not a majority, of theentire-grooved axes have the]groove wide enough for a very large handle, or for ; idinary withe to be twisted twice around. In those which have one side ungrooved, the intentionwas to admit a. wedge between the stone and the fio. 41.—Grooved ax, show-curve of the han
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