hafting

These two areas are involved, respectively, in understanding and performing skills, such as hafting an axe or opening a champagne bottle, and in human abilities such as reading, writing, arithmetic and linguistic comprehension.

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From their shape and mode of hafting them, we see at once they are simply models of the stone ax; and this recalls what we learned of the Bronze

The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races Emory Adams Allen

The small figure illustrates this method of hafting.

The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races Emory Adams Allen

Many of the axes were grooved for hafting; one of the specimens was doubly grooved and had two cutting edges.

Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744 Jesse Walter Fewkes 1890

There were one or two stone hammers, grooved for hafting, like the ax.

Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744 Jesse Walter Fewkes 1890

The manner of hafting them is quite clear, as a few hafted examples have been found.

The Bronze Age in Ireland George Coffey 1886

The manner of hafting the socketed celts is well shown by a handled socketed celt found at Edenderry, King's Co., and formerly in the Murray collection.

The Bronze Age in Ireland George Coffey 1886

I can fancy the Bronze Age smith showing them off with pride to his interested customers: 'These are our own patterns -- the newest thing out in bronze axes; observe the advantage you gain from the ribs and pellets, and the peculiar character which the octagonal socket gives to the hafting!'

Science in Arcady Grant Allen 1873

No. 65886 is distinguished by raised square at butt to facilitate hafting.

Illustrated Catalogue of the Collections Obtained from the Pueblos of Zuñi, New Mexico, and Wolpi, Arizona, in 1881 Third Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1881-82, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1884, pages 511-594 James Stevenson 1864

Guapo was in front of the house busy in new-hafting his axe.

Popular Adventure Tales Mayne Reid 1850