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the reindeer hunters might be living as fishermen on 

 the coasts, or even as farmers in particular valleys. 

 Even if the people in question were merely rude 

 hunters, they could not have lived on reindeer all the 

 year, and must have left elsewhere deposits indicating 

 their mode of life at the seasons when deer could not 

 be had. 



I may connect these illustrations of perished arts 

 with a reference to a now obsolete implement the 

 grooved hammer, noticed in the chapter on imple- 



Fig. 32-GfioovED HAMMKH, WITH HANDLE OF WITHE AND THONG, AS USED 

 BY AEICKABEE INDIANS FOB BBEAKING MABBOW-BONES OF BUFFALO. From a 

 paper by Morgan, in the Report of the Regents of University of New York. 



ments. Such hammers were the common tools of 

 the ancient copper miners of Lake Superior. Evans 

 informs us that they are found in ancient copper 

 mines in Wales, also in Staffordshire and in the 

 north of Ireland, and in Scandinavia, as well as in 

 ancient mines in Spain and in Saxony. They also 

 occur in the old Egyptian turquoise mines of Wady 

 Meghara, in Arabia. In North America they are 

 not limited to the mining districts. I figure a speci- 

 men with its handle of tough wood and raw hide 



