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of approved patterns, are still to be seen employing 

 as a scraper in the dressing of skins a mere 'teshoa/ 

 consisting of a small worn boulder thinner at one 

 end, and split through the middle in such a manner as 

 to furnish a rough cutting edge on one side. There 



seems to be a considerable ad- 

 vantage," he adds, "in this 

 over any form of knife or other 

 tool which has as yet reached 

 them from without, and it is 

 probable that it will be re- 



FIG. 43. Quartzite Hache, Robin Hood 



Cave, . 

 a. Section. 



FIG. 44. Oval Quartzite Imple- 

 ment, Robin Hood Cave, . 

 a. Section. 



tained as long as their present method of preparing hides 

 is in vogue." 1 There were also quartzite flakes (Fig. 42) 

 and implements of the same rude forms as those de- 

 scribed from the river gravels. In Fig. 43 we see a 

 pebble chipped into the same form as those found at 

 S. Acheul, and, like them, evidently intended to be held 

 in the hand by the broad end, while in Fig. 44 we see 

 another of a different form also belonging to the Eiver- 



1 Reconnaissance of North-Western Wyoming, 1873, p. 261. 



