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tions to Knowledge," p. 216, give a small woodcut of a 

 semilunar shaped knife, which they state is a form 



Fig. 1. 



occa- 

 sionally found in the East- 

 ern states. They are some- 

 times composed of slate, 

 and are of various sizes, 

 often measuring five or six 

 inches in length. They are 

 well adapted for flaying 

 animals, and other analo- 

 gous purposes." Their fig- 

 ure represents a knife of 

 the same shape as the one 

 here engraved (Fig. 1). 



Of these semilunar 

 shaped knives I have seen 

 juite a number of speci- 

 mens in various collec- 

 tions, but thus far all, as 

 stated by .8 q u i e r and 

 Davis, have, been from the 

 Eastern states. In the 

 Peabody Museum of Ar- 

 i-bseology, at Cambridge, 

 there are several of this 

 form, one of which is 

 about eiofht inches lonjr 



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and is labelled "Paring 

 Knife. Amoskeag Falls, 

 1795." Two other knives 



Knife from Salem, made of gray slate with P ,, '". , - ,, 



dark and red veins and mottliugs. Full i ize. OI thlS Shape are 111 tile 



Abbott Collection of b the Peabody Academy of Science. 

 These were found near Trenton, New Jersey, and by the 

 kindness of Dr. Abbjtt I am able to use the woodcut 





