HOLMES 1 



ABORIGINAL AMERICAN ANTIQUITIES PART I 



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Major Powell found the Pahvant tribe of the Wasatch Mountains 



making stone arrowheads and knives by the proc- 



[Pahvant Arrow ^^^^^^ ^^^ fracturing, j^ecking, and grinding; the 



Makers] «-■■' i op c^ 7 



Uintahs employed chipping and grinding, and in the 



Major's words — 



At other times, again and aaain. for years, I saw tlie Pasu Indians manu- 

 facture stone implements in the Valley of San Rafael, a 

 [Pagu Arrow tributary of the Colorado flowing from the eastern slope of 

 *^''''^^'"*^^ the Wasatch IMatoau. Those people made their implements 



by chipping. A mile above the niDutli of llie river, in a eottonwood grove, 

 there is a village site which has been occupied intermittently for many years 



Fig. 177. Free-hand pressure chipping of the Klamath Indians. (Schumacher.) 



and probably for many centuries. In the cretaceous bluffs near by great 

 quantities of chert are found, and not far away quantities of moss-agate. From 

 these materials the Indians made their implements l)y chipping, and near the 

 village site the flakes, rejects, and accidents may be found in great quantities, 

 measured by wagonloads.^ 



AVe are indebted to Schumacher for a most lucid account of this 

 , , . iirocess as i^racticed among the Klamath Indians of 



Schumacher s Ac- i i &> 



count California (fig. 177). After describing the manner 



of breaking up the stone by the aid of heat, and the 

 selection of suitable fragments, he states that — 



1 Op. cit, pp. 2-3. 



