It is an utter impossibility to present, in this volume, all the illustrations and information on adzes and gouges in my possession. It will be observed by readers, I have more than once in “The Stone Age” lamented that there is not sufficient space in these pages to describe all the types of certain artifacts.
There are some unusual specimens which defy classification. One of them is presented in Fig. 244.
Four strange objects are presented in Fig. 245. These do not belong in the adze or celt class. Yet they are all edged or pointed. As my problematical class occupies a great deal of space, I have inserted this figure here.
Fig. 242. (S. 1–3.) Five beautiful gouges from the collection of A. E. Marks, Yarmouth, Maine. These present the best types of long slender gouges in Maine. The Connecticut, Vermont, and Massachusetts forms are not different.
Fig. 243. (S. 1–3.) Gouges from A. E. Marks’s collection, Yarmouth, Maine. Some of these were found in graves. All are from Maine, except one of the central figures.
Colonel Young sent me the originals of these specimens for examination in 1900. They are of dark, reddish-brown stone. It appears like very fine sandstone or graphite slate. Regarding these specimens, Colonel Young says:—
“I do not know for what purpose these were used. I sent them to the Smithsonian Institution for them to determine the nature and character of the stone, but they could give me no satisfactory statement of what they were or where they came from. These three articles were found in a niche of a rock in Pine Mountain, Bell County, Kentucky. At the same time several arrow-heads were found. I have been able to obtain but one of the arrow-heads. The stone is unusual and the finish is also very fine. They were found by a coal-miner, who gave them to a physician, from whom I got them at Jellico, Kentucky. I know nothing of their history except the statements of the men as given to me, but they are handsome specimens and I value them highly.”
