STONE AGE IN NEW JERSEY. ol9 



figured bj' INFr. Squicr is, of course, not an ax at all, and should never 

 have been so called. 



The implements of themselves are not, we fmd, snflicient to give us a 

 correct or complete insight into aboriginal ways of living during the 

 stone age. It may be that implements and ornaments of perishable ma- 

 terial were made wholly or in part with some such a tool as figure 

 140; and that only the tools are left to us. 



Mr. C. C Jones, jr.,* in his description of the Savannah Eiver Swamp 

 canoe, further states: ''While there were no marks of sharp-cutting 

 tools, the evidence appeared conclusive that the charred portions of the 

 wood, both within and without, had been carefully removed I)}' rude 

 incisive imiilements, probably of stone ;" and still further on, " It is 

 entirely probable that the ordinary stone ax or chisel was the 

 only implement at command for the removal of the charred surface, 

 as the cypress tree was by degrees converted into the convenient dug- 

 out.''^ We agree with the author as to the chisel being used as he sug- 

 gests ; or better yet, the gouge, as represented in figure 139 ; but not 

 the " ordinary stone ax." It is very undesirable, certainly, to call an 

 "ax" a "chiseF, or vice versa, if there is really the difference between 

 the two forms that we claim. Do not a stone ax and a stone chisel, 

 or gouge, differ as much as do these forms of tools made of steel, and in 

 use p.t the present time ? Certainly, when such forms as figures 138, 139, 

 and 110 were made, no Indian would undertake to hollow out a cypress 

 log with an ordinary ax, such as we have described in the third chap- 

 ter of this work. 



Some of the English stone chisels figured by Mr. Evans bear much 

 resemblance to the specimen we have figured on i)age 151; but none of 

 the gouges can in any way compare with the beautiful examples we 

 have given in figures 139 and 140. 



Chapter XV. 



drilling-stones. 



There is nothing more interesting to the archaeologist than drilled 

 implements of stone. It is scarcely necessary to remark that such 

 drilled stones are rare, but only comparatively so, since the number of 

 specimens now in museums and i)rivate collections is considerable, yet 

 they are as nothing to the tens of thousands of arrow-points and allied 

 implements. Their relative abundance maybe apparent from the state- 

 ment that during two summers of collecting we have secured but 

 twenty-four specimens for our collection of about eight thousand ob- 

 jects, and of the twenty-four only five caH be considered perfect. 



The object of drilling holes through any of the stone implements used 

 by the aborigines was to aflbrd a convenient means of susi)ending such 

 articles. This particularly applies to thin objects, that have two or 



* L. c, p. G8. 



