SMITHSONIAK AKOH^EOLOGICAL COLLECTION. 



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There are other qnartzite hammer-stones, often of rather iri-egular shape, in 

 which the cavities are wanting. Tliey have nndergone no alteration, except- 

 ing that resulting from constant nse. A peculiar class of hammer-stones 

 consists of flint peljbles roughly worked into a roundish flattened form. Their 

 battered circumferences indicate the use to which they were applied (Fig. 82, 

 flint, Ohio). Though not in reality belonging to the series of pecked or 

 ground implements, it has been thought proper to mention them in this place. 

 — Certain stones resembling the indented hammer-stones, and often classed 

 with them, evidently were used for other purposes. They will be noticed in 

 connection Avith mortars. 



7. Drilled Ceremonial Weapons. — The grooved tomahawk was among the 

 aborigines, prior to the occupation of the country by Europeans and their 

 descendants, the prevailing implement of the axe kind; but pierced axe and 



DRILLED CEIiE.MOSIAL WEAPOKS (j). 



pick-shaped objects also occur, though not in great abundance. These relics 

 are for the most part elegantly and symmetrically shajjed, and well jjolished, 

 but of such small dimensions that they cannot have been applied to any jjrac- 



