NATURE STUDY. 



PUBI.ISHKD UNDKR THE AUSPICES OF THE 



Manchester Institute of Arts and Sciences. 



Vol.. III. November, 1902. No. 6. 



Indian Implements in the Museum of the Man- 

 chester Institute. IV. 



BY WirjvIAM H. HUSE. 



The implements of the stone age were necessarily rude. 

 Made of such refractory material and by means of equally 

 refractory tools the wonder is that they were as efficient as 

 they prooved to be. With spear and arrow points, axes, 

 knives and celts of stone, the Indian had about all he need- 

 ed for the necessities of life. His superstition, love of ease, 

 and the beautiful and other qualities of mind, however, 

 demanded other things. He wore pendants as charms and 

 ornaments and these must have holes. The red man was 

 addicted to the weed and needed a pipe of suitable mater- 

 ials. 



In making these he used drills of the only material at 

 his command and found them serviceable. 



The thirteen drills shown in the cut were all, except the 

 one in the center, picked up near Amoskeag Falls by Mr. 

 Harriman. It is possible that two or three of them may be 

 unfinished arrow points, but evidences of wear make it pro- 

 bable that they are completed implements. 



