WAR-PICKS

Mackenzie’s pl. vu, which is lashed to the
end of a short, wooden handle, as shown in
our fig. 4. This style of hafting is different
from that of the Tlingit, among whom the
stone was wedged in a corresponding hole
through the handle.

The Krause broth-
ers procured one of
these implements a-
mong the Tlingit in
1882; it is in the Nat-
ural History Museum
of Bremen, Germany.

Two interdepend-
ent questions nat-

urally arise in con- Fic. 4.—War-pick from
sidering these war- Graham _ island (after

Mackenzie).

picks: Who made

them? and Whence was the material ob-
tained? From its distribution among the
Tsimshian, Haida, and Tlingit, it would
seem that at least one of these people was
responsible for the origin of this type of
weapon, as it was common to all of them; but
there is no known deposit of jade on the
coast, and no evidence, except for a few

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