Davenport, Cyril, 1848-1941 · London : Constable · leaf 19
his war club. Such records would, nodoubt, become customary among war-like tribes. Thehandles of war axes or spears would offer excellent groundfor such marks, and presently, especially in peace times,similar marks may well have kept tallies of the numbers ofgame killed. From such personal notes… … letterings are usually runin with some pigment. Another primitive formof record is found in thecase of notches cut in of a literary turn of mind EAELY EECOEDS. 7 notches cut along an angular edge, and these notches androds are the very distant ancestors ofour modern types of metal; the Germanword…
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