BUREAU OF ETHNOLOGY 



FIFTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT PL. LXV 



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SPECIMEN ILLUSTRATING ROUGHED-OUT CELT, VERY THICK AT THE LOWER END; FROM 

 SHOP NEAR LURAY, VIRGINIA; THREE-FOURTHS ACTUAL SIZE 



This object might feadily be taken either for a reject of ieaf-shape blade-making or for a completed implement 

 of one of the larger varieties; but. found on a celt-making site, it may safely be classed as a reject of celt 

 making. It is a typical celt blank, defective, however, in having insufficient thickness of poll and at the 

 same time too great massiveness at the broader edge. The latter condition would have made the pecking 

 necessary in producing an edge very prolonged and laborious 



