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These are very rare in both the Algonkian and Iroquoian areas of New 

 England and the Middle Atlantic States. One very large stemmed scraper, 

 of a tN-pe more common in the far west, also comes from this locality. 



Drills (Fig. 11). These are usually chipped tools presenting an elon- 

 gated narrow blade and a considerably swollen or expanded base, suitable 

 for grasping in the hand. In some cases the base was absent and those 

 were probably hafted in wood. Specimens whose blades have a square 

 or rectangular cross section are very rare. The finding of cores left in 

 half-drilled objects shows the use of a hollow drill, and it has been suggested 

 that a hard hollow reed used with sand and water on a soft stone would 

 produce this effect. To bear out this assertion, it has been reported that a 

 half-drilled implement has been found (outside this area on the upper 

 Hudson) in which the remains of the reed drill were found in the cavity left 

 by its action. 



Rough Stone Articles. 



Hammer stones. These vary from simple pebbles picked up and used 

 in the rough, showing merely a battered edge or edges acquired by use, to 

 the pitted forms. They are generally mere pebbles with a pit pecked on two 

 opposite sides, perhaps to aid in grasping with the thumb and forefinger. 

 Some have battered edges, but many have not, suggesting, when round and 

 regular, a use as gaming or "Chunke" stones, or as implements used only 

 in pounding some soft substance. Hammerstones, pitted on one side only, 

 and others with many pits on all sides, occur. These latter may have had 

 some special use, and are not to be confounded with the large flat, slab-like 

 stones having pits only on one side, found in other regions, and perhaps 

 used as receptacles for holding nuts while cracking them. While these are 

 common in the Iroquoian area, they are unknown here. 



Large stones, single or double pitted, resembling oversized hammer- 

 stones occur, and these may have been used as anvils in chipping flint or 

 for like purposes. 



Grooved clubs or mauls, also showing use as hammers are found. 

 These are rare and are usually either rough pebbles, grooved for hafting, 

 as in the case of the grooved axe, or grooved axes, the blades of which have 

 become so battered, broken and rounded by wear as to preclude their 

 further use for chopping. 



Net-sinkers. On all sites near the water, either salt or fresh, net-sinkers 

 show the prevalence of fishing. These are of two types. In one case a 

 pebble is notched on opposite sides of either the long or broad axis; in the 

 other a groove is pecked around the entire pebble in the same manner. The 



