It is apparent that most of these adzes were not originally fastened to a stick or club, but were held in the hand.
The adzes also, of course, varied in size and shape, some being oblong in section, others almost rectangular, while others again were oval.
They also cleared ground for cultivation by deadening trees with their tomahawks,[16] and used adzes made of shell in cleaning out the charred wood in making canoes.
It is hewn into form by the small sharp adzes of the islanders.
And adzes again, a myriad of them, beautiful ones, from an ounce in weight for the finer carving of idols to fifteen pounds for the felling of trees, and all with the sweetest handles I have ever beheld.
They were constantly striking bolts and nails with theiradzes and hatchets, blunting the edges.
The stone adzes and axes, which have been discarded by the inhabitants of the coast, are said to be still employed by the bushmen.
These stone axes and adzes are generally made of the hard volcanic rocks of this region.
Stolpe stated that the linear ornaments on the carved Mangaian adzes were for the most part to be regarded as transformed figures of human beings, or especially as divine beings.
It is possible that the adzes from the Hervey Islands, with long, unperforated carved handles, may have a different history from the form illustrated in Fig.
Rubbings from the handles of symbolic adzes from the Hervey Islands.
A still more wonderful change has affected certain adzes in the Hervey Islands.
March's contribution is that these carved shafts of sacred paddles and adzes were pedigree-sticks.
The pigs are brought out one by one, and killed by hitting them on the head with clubs or adzes or anything else.
The adzes and clubs are the same as those used for war.
All the guest men bring with them their spears, and perhaps adzes or clubs.
The hunting weapons and contrivances used are spears, bows and arrows, nets and traps; but adzes and clubs are used in connection with net hunting.
The lashing always follows the same general plan, though no two adzes are lashed exactly alike.
Ray informs me that he has seen men mark such sticks of timber by cutting them with their adzes and that sticks so marked were respected by the other natives.
Utkiavw[)i]n is one of the ancient black jade adzes 5.
Nearly all these ancient adzes are of jade, a material well adapted for the purpose by its hardness, which, however, renders it difficult to work.
Adzes of this sort are used for all large pieces of wood work, such as timbers for boats, planks, and beams for houses, etc.
There is in the collection a very interesting series of ancient tools, showing the gradual development of the implement from a rude oblong block of stone worked down to a cutting edge on one end, to the steeladzes of the present day.
That adzes of this pattern sometimes had stone blades is probable.
These were sometimes made by cutting a piece from one of the old jade adzes in the manner already described.
This method of hafting differs in no essential respect from that used on the mauls and adzes above described.
While the adzes already described appear to have been the predominating types, another form was sometimes used.
Their axes and adzes were derived chiefly from basaltic volcanic stone.
Their adzes and axes were made of a hard basaltic stone; and a jasper-like stone was very useful in its small fragments for making a sharp, hard borer.
The existence of bronze and stone moulds for adzes and celts proves this.
The men who used implements of bronze were Kelts; the men who eked out their existence with nothing better than adzes and arrow-heads of stone, were other than Keltic.
Although it is extremely probable that some of the ancient stone adzes of other countries may have been mounted in this manner, there have not, so far as I am aware, been any of the handles of this class discovered.
The jade adzes of the New Zealanders are hafted in a somewhat similar manner; but the hafts are often beautifully carved and inlaid.
However this may be, it appears that in Western Europe the practice of grinding the edges of hatchets and adzes was more universal in the case of those formed of other stones than flint, than with those of purely silicious material.
A few of the large Polynesian adzes of basalt have their edges produced by a similar method of chipping and are left unground.
We are left in a great degree to conjecture as to the other methods of mounting stone hatchets and adzes on handles in prehistoric times; but doubtless some besides those already mentioned were practised.
In some New Guinea and New Caledonia adzes and axes the blade is let into a socket at a nearly right angle to the haft, and either forming part of it or attached to it.
Some Brazilian and Aleutian Island adzes are mounted in much the same fashion.
In the Hervey Islands[286] it was customary on the eve of battle to bury the stone adzes of the family in some out-of-the-way place.
In the Museum of the Deutsche Gesellschaft at Leipzig, is a greenstone implement resembling these adzesor hoes at its broader end, but at the other, instead of being square or rounded, presenting an axe-like edge.
Here I saw a number of men busy with tiny native adzes upon some felled trees, shaping them into wooden rails.
Without hesitation Bositi declared he could build a railway for the Chief if he were provided with the necessary men to help him and a few axes and adzes for felling and shaping the timber.
In the later stone adzes holes are sometimes found pierced to receive the handles.
CELT, a word in common use among British and French archaeologists to describe the hatchets, adzes or chisels of chipped or shaped stone used by primitive man.
They have not the least knowledge of Iron or any other Metal that we know of; their working Tools must be made of Stone, bone, and Shells; those made of the former are very bad, if I may judge from one of their Adzes I have seen.
The stone adzes of Tahiti were of excellent workmanship.
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