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Grooved mauls. — These mauls are represented by two specimens. 

 They are made of granite boulders, roughly shaped, smoothed, and 

 grooved about the center for haf ting. The smaller and squattier speci- 

 men is oval in cross section while the larger is somewhat trianguloid 

 in cross section. In actual weight there is a very little difference. 

 The smaller specimen weighs exactly 4 pounds 6 omices and the larger 

 one weighs 4 pounds 12 ounces. Neither is badly battered. Both show 

 that they had received considerable usage, probably in the crushing 

 of dried meat, nuts, or berries. Exterior surfaces are finely dimpled 

 (pi. 30, 5). 



Grooved stone ax (pi. 30, B) . — Only one stone ax was recovered and 

 this is not a complete specimen, for the butt end is missing. Appar- 

 ently this is an unusual type in that it has a groove completely en- 

 circling the implement separating the blade from the butt. During the 

 life of the implement the butt section had been completely broken 

 away and another groove was being pecked ahead of the older groove 

 which was never finished, for the blade became broken and the tool 

 discarded. The tool was well fashioned and finished. The blade is 

 still fairly sharp. This particular ax was made of a greenish-colored 

 diorite, a stone which does not occur locally. It must have been 

 traded into this region from the general Southwest for it resembles 

 those occurring in that region. In its present form it weighs 2 pounds 

 4 ounces. Both fragments were found in Feature 9, a cache pit, at a 

 depth of between 7.0 and 7.5 feet. 



Pumice dbraders. — Pieces of waterworn pumice or naturally burned 

 lignite of various shapes and sizes, some less than an inch across up 

 to pieces as large as grapefruit or larger, were utilized as abraders. 

 Several have faceted sides, others have narrow shallow grooves, and 

 still others have wide and deep grooves. The shallower grooves were 

 probably made from sharpening pointed bone and wooden imple- 

 ments while the wider and deeper grooves were probably used and 

 made as arrowshaf t straighteners and smoothers. 



Sandstone abraders. — Bits of sandstone, of various degrees of 

 coarseness, show one or more surface grooves resulting from the rub- 

 bing of honed implements across them. Some are irregular bits of 

 sandstone and others appear to have been shaped into rough rectangu- 

 lar blocks and used as hones or specialized whetstones for sharpening 

 bone awls or smoothing arrowshafts. 



Arrowshaft straighteners. — Implements for this purpose were made 

 of sandstone and display one or more grooves running the length of 

 the implement. Usually they are rectangular in shape, but some are 

 triangular in cross section. Whether these constitute distinct types or 

 just individual likes as to shape must be taken into consideration. 

 Some may have liked the rectangular form, others preferred the tri- 



