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Tasmanian aborigines put their implements3 warns us that such
is not necessarily the case. Moreover, some of the highest
authorities, notably Worthington Smith4 are of opinion that
fig. 6—tongue-shaped implement from Swanscombe.
Drawn by J. P. Johnson. Actual size.
they were not hafted in any way, but were merely grasped in the
hand.
A characteristic example is that shewn in Fig. 5. I imagine
it to have been bound round, at the upper end, by a withe, and
3 See E B. Taylor "On the Tasmanians as representatives of Palaeolithic Man."
Journ. Anthrop Institute, vol. xxiii. 1894.
4 Worthington G. Smith, Man the Primaeval Savage. London, 1894.