92 



V ft 



MODERN FLAKES. 



cutting edge on each side, and might therefore be at once 

 used as knives, as in fig. 91, which represents a North 

 American two-bladed knife: they are indeed so named by 



FIG. 91. 



North American Knife. 



FIG. 92. 



m m^ 



Australians making Flakes. 



some archaeologists ; but it seems to me more convenient to 

 call them simply flakes, and to confine the name of knife to 

 implements more especially intended and adapted for cutting 

 purposes. Fig. 92, from a drawing by Mr. Baines,* represents 

 an Australian making rude flakes. Fig. 93 represents an 



* See Geol. and Nat. Hist. Repertory, No. 13, May, 1866. 



