ABORIGINAL CHIPPED STONE IMPLEMENTS OF NEW YORK 65 



They vary greatly in form and finish, and some very closely resemble 

 those yet used by the Eskimo. They form a very widely spread class 

 of implements, often adapted to local needs. 



The ruder scrapers need not be illustrated now, as they took almost 

 any form, like the ruder knives, presenting nothing characteristic 

 except the beveled edge and flat under surface. A chance flake, or a 

 flat pebble might be otherwise unaltered. Some are extremely small, 

 being less than half an inch long, while others are quite massive. Fig. 

 178 is a fine example of a simple and large form from the Seneca 

 river. The material is brown flint, two and five eighths inches long. 

 This is boldly but neatly flaked, and is more massive and uniform in 

 thickness than usual, as well as flatter on the under side. Another 

 from Onondaga lake, of mottled flint and one and seven eighths inches 

 long, is very much like this, but the under surface is somewhat curved 

 and twisted, and the implement is proportionally broader. One of 

 yellow jasper, from Oswego Falls, closely resembles this in size and 

 character. A fragment of a large one from the Seneca river, is still 

 two and three quarters by three and one quarter inches, but is of a 

 ruder type. A very neat and depressed scraper, almost of a horse- 

 shoe form, was found in the town of Marcy, north of the Mohawk 

 river. It is of drab flint, and is three and one quarter inches in length. 



Fig. 183 is given on account of its small size, although typical of 

 quite a class. There is a small site on the bank of the inlet of Onon- 

 daga lake, which was a frequent camping place in early days, some- 

 times apparently occupied for months at a time. Bone harpoons, 

 pottery, flint and bone articles, the so-called spades, and other things 

 occur there. Tn excavating an ash-bed there this little scraper was 

 found. It is of common flint, ridged in the center, and but seven 

 sixteenths of an inch long. Another, but five eighths of an inch in 

 length, comes from Seneca county. 



Fig. 177 is a very curious article, not a typical scraper, and yet 

 probably used for one of its purposes, that of fashioning the shafts of 

 arrows. It seems to have been made from a broken arrow-head, and 

 was found in 1880 in a cache in ( 'aynga c< unity. The cache contained 

 also twenty arrows and the same number of flint knives, a quantity 

 of mica, some antler prongs, paint, and other things. Also a turtle 



