THE ABORIGINES. 



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Among the other occupations of their wigwams in win- 

 ter and summer are the making of wampum, or money, and 

 the fashioning of stone implements. The latter has al- 

 ready been mentioned, and much skill is necessary in 

 chipping one stone by striking it with another. Some of 

 them are smoothed by long rubbing. Bits of quartz with- 



Three quarters natural length. 

 Upper— A Reject. Stone Knife Blade. 



Lower— Spearhead from Punch Bowl. From Government Island. 



out any smoothing, after being chipped into flat, triangular 

 points, are fastened into arrow shafts either by a hard gum 

 or by sinews. 



Pieces of felsite are most used for edge tools, because 

 they chip with a conchoidal fracture instead of cracking 

 straight through. How to bore a hole in stone without 



