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or bronze axes of the Mexicans holds good; they are like "those of modern times, except that we put the handle in an eye of the axe while they put the axe in an eye of the handle." A similarly hafted hatchet with the blade ground is in use among the Botocudo
Fig. 95.—War-axe—Gaveoë Indians, Brazil.
Indians. In the Island of New Hanover[1] the axe blade is inserted about the middle of the club-like haft. Some hatchets from the Admiralty Islands[2] are curiously like those from the Swiss Lake-
