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Fig. 317. A well-wrought three-sided perforator of brown flint, obtained 

 with other tools of the same description from Santa Cruz Island, California. 



Fig. 318. Another piercing tool of large size and consisting of light-gray 

 flint. It terminates in a three-sided point which is rounded by wear. The 

 portion opposite the point is broad and massive. In other specimens of this 

 class, all of which were found by Mr. Paul Schumacher on Santa Cruz Island, 

 the thick part is coated with asphaltum, doubtless for more convenient handling. 



Fig. 319. A chipped sickle-shaped implement of light-gray hornstone, 

 probably used in scraping round objects of wood, bone, etc., the inner curve 

 forming a strong, carefully wrought edge. The specimen, which was found 

 in Ohio, terminates in an indented tang or stem, by which it appears to have 

 been attached to a handle. 



Fig. 320. A remarkable specimen of the perforated club-head-shaped arti 

 cles previously described. It consists of greenstone, and was found in Cali 

 fornia, like the other objects of analogous form before noticed. 



Fig. 321. A very singular tool made of dark basaltic rock. The working 

 part is curved, and the upper side shows a shoulder on which the end of a 

 handle may have rested. The four conical elevations seen on the lower side 

 appear to have served for confining the ligatures by which the handle was 

 connected with the implement. This specimen was obtained in Oregon. 



Fig. 322. One of several objects made of argillitc and obtained from 

 Massachusetts. They are flattish and about one-third of an inch thick at the 

 perforated rounded end, but become gradually thinner toward the tapering 

 opposite extremity. It may be assumed that they served as implements, 

 though their special use thus far has not been ascertained. In some the per 

 foration is wanting, which hardly would be the case if these objects had been 

 designed for other than useful purposes. 



Among the objects lately obtained from Utah is a large stone of somewhat 

 compressed roundish form, and showing no other modification but a groove 

 running across the broader sides. The material of this stone, which weighs 

 fifteen pounds, is vesicular basalt. The writer has seen in the State of New 

 York, and elsewhere, similar stones or boulders grooved in the same manner. 

 They are thought to have served instead of anchors. 



