Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution .. . ge 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 axe
Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution .. . ge 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 handle. The handles were very firmly fastened; two axes in the collection have been broken in such a waythat on one side, from the top half way down, the blade is gone, carry-ing away the groove on that side; yet the polish of the groove extends.
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