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totem of grey stone. One of the arrows was translucent, and another 

 was of white quartz. The remainder of the arrows and all the knives 

 were of native hornstone. The writer has seen a similar article from 

 Missouri, and supposes it to have been used in scraping the shafts of 

 arrows in the speediest way. 



Fig. 179 has one end rounded, and the other straight. The edges 

 are somewhat parallel, but the surface is widest along the center. 

 These opposite edges are beveled from opposite surfaces, so that there 

 are one or two scraping edges, whichever way it may be turned. It 

 is probable that some of the beveled arrows, so called, were scrapers 

 of this kind. Part of the length has been lost, so that no scraper now 

 appears at that end, if indeed there was ever any there, for in that 

 part the edges become sharp, and probably the knife and scraper 

 were combined. It comes from the Seneca river, and is made of 

 brown flint, still two and seven eighths inches long. A smaller one 

 of these has much the same character; the base and edge being bev- 

 eled on one side, with the other edge beveled from the other surface. 

 It is of light drab flint, one and three quarters inches long, and does 

 not have the knife edge of the last mentioned. This was from Three 

 River Point. Another similar scraper, of light grey flint, has four 

 beveled edges on one side, nearly parallel, and is one and three quar- 

 ters inches long. 



Some which have been called gambling flints, are small and nearly 

 square. They are not all distinctly scrapers, and seem to have been 

 Iroquois gun flints, made by themselves for an emergency. The 

 beveling is from both sides, as in a knife. As some of these were 

 certainly made at a time when the Iroquois used deer buttons and 

 peach stones for gambling, and as most of them were associated with 

 European articles, they may well be classed as indian gun flints. 

 Fig. 180 is one of these from the Seneca river. It is of dark flint, 

 nearly an inch square. The square center is flat, and the stone is 

 beveled to the edge on each side. Fig. 181 shows a Cayuga specimen, 

 to which the name of gambling flint has been distinctly given. It is 

 of hornstone, and was found, with 20 others, in a grave well sup- 

 plied with European articles. This is an inch across, but others 

 were smaller. A gun, bullets, and two gun flints, were among the 



