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figures in low and high relief, or even in part in the full round. The 

 question naturally arises as to the kind of tool employed in this work, 

 since so few are found seemingly well adapted to it. The cliisel- 



FiG. 193. Carving with a pointed bit of stone held in the hand. 



like implement of flint (fig. 10.")). obtained somewhere in Yucatan, 

 properly hafted. would have been effective. It seems probable that 

 the abrading process must have been called into service for this class 

 of sculpture more fully than we are accustomed to allow. The 



Fig. 194. ProI:)ablp manner of employing the chisel in carving stone. 



drawing reproduced in figure 19G serves to indicate three variants of 

 the crumbling processes pi'obably in more or less general use anions,' 

 the stone workers of Middle America. 



