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implements, processes, or art products has come to be what it is. The 

 following is a good example of this : A symposium was held by the 

 Anthropological Society of Washington to study the arrow-maker's 

 art. Six members made communications and their results are published 

 in the Anthropologist. Each reader was an expert in his field, so 

 that, practically, there is little more to be said on that subject. Illus- 

 trations of some of the methods are to be found in the Reports 

 of the Smithsonian Institution, but the perfectiug of the point is 

 shown only in the American Anthropologist and is reproduced here to 

 give the subject a wider circulation. The steps are as follows : (1) 



Fig. 1. — Free hand or direct percussion. 



Free hand or direct percussion ; (2) direct percussion, manner of 



Fig. 2. — Direct percussion. 



