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Rh. Excessively long hafts in which the blades are let into a socket are occasionally in use among the Chamacocos of south-east Bolivia.

Many stone and metallic axes in use among other modern savages are hafted in much the same manner by insertion in a socket. In some instances it would appear as if the hole for receiving the stone did not extend through the haft, but was merely a shallow depression—even a notch. Such seems to be the case with a war-axe of the Gaveoë Indians of Brazil in the British Museum, figured in the Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries, and here, by permission, reproduced, as Fig. 95. Some of their axes have longer hafts. In the Over Yssel Museum is a Brazilian stone axe with a blade of this kind, which is said to have been used in an insurrection at Deventer in 1787.

The "securis lapidea in sacrificiis Indorum usitata," engraved by Aldrovandus, seems to have the blade inserted in a socket without being tied, but in most axes of the same kind the blade is secured in its place by a plaited binding artistically interlaced. Fig. 96.—Axe of Montezuma II.

The stone axe said to be that of Montezuma II., preserved in the Ambras Museum at Vienna, is a good example of the kind. I have engraved it as Fig. 96, from a sketch I made in 1866.

In some cases the whole handle is covered with the binding. Two such in the Dresden Historical Museum are engraved by Klemm. Others have been figured by Prof. Giglioli.

Some of the war-axes (called taawisch or tsuskiah) in use among the natives of Nootka Sound are mounted in this manner, but the socket end of the shaft is carved into the form of a grotesque human head, in the mouth of which the stone blade is