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Fig. 132. 



Sawing on beittle wood from Tula- 

 ROSA Cave. 



tremely neat finish and has been split from its fellow. Reducing 

 wood to thin strips by splitting was apparently not practiced at the 

 Tiilarosa Cave, but the offer- 

 ings at the Bear Creek Cave, 

 described on page 105, show 

 that the practice was com- 

 mon among the worshippers 

 there. 



Beyond the hafted stone 

 knives or dart heads (fig. 138, 

 Cat. No. 246537, U.S.N.M., 

 5^ inches long, blade \.\ 

 inches long) no formal tools 

 for woodworking are found 

 in the Tularosa Cave, but 

 many hand spalls of chal- 

 cedony and basalt, some of 

 which are chipped along one 



edge, occur in the debris. A most effective knife-saw, 

 oblong-oval in shape with one straight edge serrated or 



smooth, is common over a 

 great area on the southern 

 Arizona mountain slope. 

 A specimen in the collec- 

 tion of P. G. Gates, found 

 in the upper waters of the 

 Salt River in the San 

 Carlos Reserve, was bound 

 up with a piece of wood 

 which the saw had been 

 used in cutting and deposited with a burial in a cave. This inter- 

 esting specimen corroborates the use of the serrated flake as a wood- 

 working tool. (See figs. 28-33.) 



No evidences of drilling wood were 

 found in this locality, but examples 



i;53. 



135. 



134. 



Figs. 133-135. — Cvlindrical blocks from Tula- 

 rosa Cave. 



Fig. 136. — Bunt head for thiiowdart 

 from Tularosa Cave. 



Fig. 137. — Wooden die from 

 Tularosa Cave. 



are noted from Blue River. Pretty generally fire-pointed sticks 

 occur in the southern caves, but have no special significance, as 



