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Fig. 5. 



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The first thing that strikes the visitor is the immense 

 number and variety of forms of stone weapons, im- 

 plements, and ornaments, far ex- 

 ceeding anything known in Europe. 

 First we have ovoid or leaf-shaped 

 stones, often of flint quartzite or 

 other hard material, and probably 

 used as scrapers. Fig. 5, b, is a com- 

 mon type, often shorter and rounded 

 with the broad end worked to a 

 fine edge. These scrapers are 

 usually better shaped and more carefully worked 

 the flint scrapers so commonly found in England. 



Diverging from these we have a great variety of shapes 

 evidently adapted for special purposes, such as scraping 

 down the hafts of spears and arrows, as in the strange 

 forms shown in Fig. 6, b, c, and d. Borers, probably used 



for making 

 holes in skins 

 for lacing 

 them to- 

 gether, are 

 shown in Fig. 

 6, a, and these 

 too vary great- 

 ly, some being 

 very slender 

 and delicate, 

 and all are 

 formed of 

 flint, quartz- 

 ite, or other hard stone. It may be noted that very rude 

 tools and weapons are found in certain deposits in 

 America as in Europe, some in New England and others 

 in Utah closely resembling the palaeolithic implements of 

 the high gravels of our own country and France. 



Passing on to the more decided weapons we notice a 

 number of very distinct types. Fig. 7, h, shows a 

 transition from the well-formed scraper to the spear-head. 

 This takes a more definite form in g, and j ; while in i, 



Fig. 6. 



