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flint points at 

 The smaller of 



any Pueblo implement was pressed into service for which it was 

 not primarily intended. 



Stone axes (pi. 32, 1-3). — The four recovered, all of diorite, are 

 relatively crude, like most axes from ruins throughout the San Juan 

 drainage. The smallest of those illustrated has a secondary groove 

 just below the principal one. 



Celt. — The well-known celt or tcamahia of the San 

 Juan Basin is represented by a single, fragmentary 

 specimen of reddish argillaceous chert (312243). Its 

 handle is mostly missing, but on the remaining por- 

 tion a perceptible difference in coloration indicates the 

 former presence of a covering or wrapping. The 

 blade had been broken, rechipped, and the sharp 

 edges slightly rubbed. 



Chipped implements. — Of the six 

 hand (312312), two are arrowheads, 

 these, triangular in shape, is three-quarters of an inch 

 long; the other, notched and slightly barbed, meas- 

 ures 1% inches. The other four specimens may be 

 regarded as knives. Their bases are square or nearly 

 so, and to two of them some adhesive, probably pitch, 

 still cleaves. The largest of the lot, its tip missing, 

 measures 1 by 21^ inches (0.025 by 0.063 m.) ; its sides 

 and edges have been slightly smoothed by 

 The wooden knife handle illustrated by Figure 5 was 

 collected at Betatakin by Professor Cummings in 1909 and added to 

 the national collections through exchange with the University of Utah. 



A small frag-ment of a 

 red jasper flake (312313) 

 had been chipped along 

 each side, for use in cutting 

 or scraping. 



Stone pellet. — A rounded 

 stone ball (312309), five- 

 eighths of an inch in diam- 

 eter and blackened by fire, served an unknown purpose. 



Effigy. — No one may say what animal is represented by the little 

 stone effigy shown in Figure 6. Its front legs, mere knobs at best, 

 have been broken and subsequently rounded. 



Turquoise. — The fragment of a small, semilunate bead, V-drilled 

 on the flatter side, is the only piece of turquoise collected (312311). 



rubbino- figure 5.— wooden 



^ ^^ to- KNIFE HANDLE 



Figure 6. — Stone efitigy 



