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Show Two-Handled Stone Sledges. Thlrteon hundrtri 3tono Blodgo-ham-mors havo boon ibn out of1 tunhels mado by prehistoric men in tho Iron mines at Leslie, Ariz. Thoy aro mado of black hematite and havo no other finish than a groove about tho middlo of each, ehowlng whero formerly they wore bound by tho withes to wooden handles. Greenstone and Jasper used by tho aborigines for war axes wero not hard enough to chip away tho homatlto and oxposo tho pockets of red oxide of iron which tho savage used as a paint. Tho form of somo of theso hammors shows that thoy woro flttod with two haudles, so that tho operator could hold ono In each hand. |