. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. Fig. 47.—Ice-pick and skin-dresscr, Siberia. Fig. 48.—Stone adze, British Columbia. Fig. 48 is the last illustration we shall offer of this mode of attaching the bit or blade to the handle of wood. It is a small adze of argillite lashed with twisted sinews to a handle formed of a forked branch. Such implements were used in smoothing the insides of canoes. The main stem was grasped by the left hand, and the smaller one by the right. It is fr
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. Fig. 47.—Ice-pick and skin-dresscr, Siberia. Fig. 48.—Stone adze, British Columbia. Fig. 48 is the last illustration we shall offer of this mode of attaching the bit or blade to the handle of wood. It is a small adze of argillite lashed with twisted sinews to a handle formed of a forked branch. Such implements were used in smoothing the insides of canoes. The main stem was grasped by the left hand, and the smaller one by the right. It is from the Haidah Indians of Bella-Bella, British Columbia. We reach the third class of our first division and notice the single instance in the Philadelphia Exhibition in which a modern stone axe was inserted through a hole in the handle. This has been deemed the characteristic African method, and with much reason, though instances of its adoption are found elsewhere; the New Caledonians, for instance, mount their axes like the Africans, putting the tang of the bit through a perforated knob on the end of the handle. As almost all the African tribes use iron, smelted and worked by native smiths, the instances of the African method will occur more frequently in the second division of the subject, which treats of metal. The modern axe of greenstone (Fig. 49) is used in Mozambique, a Fig. 40.— Stone axe of Mozambique. Portuguese COloilV ill Eastern Africa. The bit is 8 inches long, and is lashed with strips of raw-hide to a wooden handle, which is carved at the hand-hold. The lashing is covered with cowrie-shells, which form in part the currency of the natives; they answer, we may suppose, the same purpose as the gold mounting of a dress-sword. The inhabitants, though well ac- S. Mis. 54 1G. 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 perfectl
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