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Stevens ' denies in stronsest terms that tliese relics are uuflnislieil 

 implements, saying it is the worst possible form into which flint could 



FiQ. 173.— chipped spade, showing handle notches. 



Fig. 174.— Chipped spade. 



be chipped for carrying or for future work. On the other hand, 

 Clieever- says the Indians of California usually carry a pouch ot 

 treasures, consisting of unfinished arrowheads or unworked stones, to 



Fig. 175. — Chi]>pe(l disk, or " turtleback." 



be slowly wrought out when they are industriously inclined. Gatlin, 

 too, observed that the Apache sometimes carry bowlders of hornstone 

 •a long distance to obtain material for arrowheads;^ and according to 



I Flint Chips, p. 442. 



^ Amer. Naturalist, vol. iv, p. 140. 



^Last Kambles Among the Indians, p. 187. 



