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not appear that any of the North American Indians who had access to 

 copper worked it by smelting ; but they treated it as malleable stone 

 and shaped it by hammering. The Greenland Eskimo make knives from 

 the copper obtained from Coppermine Eiver ? from flint, from walrus 

 ivory, or from such pieces of iron as they may obtain by barter or may 

 pick up from whalers or explorers. 

 Fig. 73 shows a number of copper implements — knives, a spear, and 



Fig. 73. — Native copper implements, Wisconsin. 



a hook ; these are Indian remains from Wisconsin, the metal having 

 doubtless been obtained from the Lake Superior copper district in 

 earlier times. They, together with many other copper tools, were exhib- 

 ited by the Wisconsin Historical Society in the Mineral Annex of the 

 Main Building. We cannot pretend to distinguish carefully between 

 the weapon and the domestic implement. A knife is a knife whether 

 for the throat of an enemy or of a deer. 



Fig. 74. — Copper weapon and steel dagger, British Columbia. 



Fig. 71 shows a knife-like club a of native copper, a hereditary posses- 

 sion in the family of a llaidah chief in British Columbia. Beneath it 



