APPENDIX I. 



The Aboriginal Modes of hqfling Stone and Bone Implements. 



Various North American tribes still use, though to a limited extent, weapons and tools of 

 stone and bone, hafting them according to the methods in vogue among their forefathers. 

 Such modern specimens illustrate the manner in which the stone axes, celts, adzes, and other 

 implements of earlier date were rendered serviceable by the addition of handles, and it has been 

 thought proper, therefore, to figure and describe here the most characteristic among the numerous 

 hafted weapons and tools preserved in the ethnological department of the National Museum. 



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HAFTED STONE WEAPONS. 



Fig. 323. — Grooved greenstone axe with a hickory withe bent around the groove. The ends of 

 the withe, which form the handle, are firmly bound with strips of raw-hide below 

 the stone head, near the middle, and at the lower part (Dakota Indians). 



Fig. 324. — Polished celt of argillite, chipped thin at the blunt part to fit into the cleft end of an 

 oaken stick, where it is secured by twisted cords of siuew (Indians of the Missouri 

 Valley). 



Fig. 325. — 'War-club, consisting of a heavy roundish stone firmly connected with a long handle. 



Both the stone and the handle are tightly cased in raw-hide sewed together with 



sinew. The end of the handle is perforated for receiving a loop of dressed skin, 



designed to pass around the wrist (Dakota Indians). 



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