Ill 



liAK'UdW KSKIMf 



apprars in liavc l..'.-ii iaivl,\ used. W.^ nl.taiiicd only tliivr (if tliis mate- 

 rial. No. .S!l(!'.Ht|i;UI| is a tlinl kriilf liall.Ml witli a roii.ijli, ii rc.uular lump 

 ofcoarso whalr's hone. Tln' lilailf is a rallicr lliin •• spall" ol li.ulit f;ray 

 Mini, linked i-ouiid tli.- .-d-.s into 111.' shape of a inodeiii iiliin; blade. 

 Willi a. verystroii-lyeiiived eiittin- ed-e. Tliou-h the handle is new, 

 the llaUin-o|-the blade ,h.es n-it secMri fresh, so that it is possibly a 

 ;:.-iiiiine old blad.' fitted with a new haft for the inaiket. A similar 

 Hint blade, more neatly llaked. was brout^ht tVom Kotzelme Sound by 

 laeul. Stoiiey. C. S. Navy, in 1S,S4. The otiiei' two tlinf knives are iu- 

 terestintr from beiiii;- madi' for use without handles. 



Xo. SlliiOI [l;{i;i»], Fi.u. IL'7. from Sida-u. is an oblou.i;-. wed.nc shaped 

 sjiall of -ray Hint, of which th.' ba<-k still iireserves the natural surface 

 of the pebble. It is sli-htly sliap<'d by coarse tlakin.- alon.- the back 

 and one eml, and the cdye is finely tlak.'d into a curved outline lound- 

 n;,^ u|. at th.- .Mids. The siieciiin-n is old and dirty, and was probably 

 om oraninlet. No. S'.tdDl' |n7S| is a similar 

 spall from a i.mnd jiebble. Such knives as 

 iIk'sc are evidently the first stejis in the de- 

 velopment of the rouml knife. The shape 

 of the spalls. ].roduced b.\- breaking a round 

 or oval iiebble of Hinl.wouhl naturally sug- 

 gest using th<-m as knives, and the nextstep 



;ivater adaptability of slate, from its 



n... ij7,-w,„„.,, - i,„„ ,i,,i„,i softn.'ss and easy .■leavage, tbr making such 



knives woidd soon be re<-oguize(l. and we 



sln.n \p.Mt to lind. as w.. (h., knives like No. .-.IKmL' | Illl ]. The next 



step would naturally be lo provide such a knife with a haft at the point 

 wh.M-e the stoiu- was grasped by the han<l. while reducing this haft .so as 

 lo h-ave oidyjusl enou.uh fbi' the gras]) and cutting away the su])erHu.)US 

 coriHTS.if the blade would give us the modern form of the blade. K(mnd 

 knivesof slat.' are not p,-,nliai- t.i I'.iint I'.ai row. l)nt have be.-n c.dlected 



llie r.'latmusliip iH.tw.M'ii th.'se kui v.'s an.l the semilunar slate blades 

 loon. I in th.' N.uth .\llanti.' Stat.-s has already been ably discussed by 

 Dr. Charl.'s Itau.- It must, however, be boriu- in mind that while these 

 ar.' siilliciently "lish cutters" to wariant their admissi.ui into a book 

 on fishing, the cuttin- of fish is but a siimll \y.\vt of the work tliey do. 

 Th.'uame-lish ,ulter."as appli,..! to these knives, would be no more 



Uoa 



