ABORIGINAL CHIPPED STONE IMPLEMENTS OF NEW YORK 5 I 



river, is almost a true ellipse, five inches long by two and three eighths 

 inches broad. It is scarcely pointed, and many have this feature in 

 other forms. A small one of common flint, which is but two inches 

 long, differs little from fig. 128 except in size. Fig. 129 is a beautiful 

 knife of light blue flint, five inches long. It is not a rare form, but 

 with this outline is quite as often a scraper as a knife. Nothing can be 

 prettier than fig. 130 which is of a beautiful banded white flint, three 

 inches long. It comes from the town of Van Buren, some miles 

 south of the Seneca river. Among the finest of this form is a very 

 long and slender one from Chautauqua county. It is 1 1^ inches long, 

 two and three quarters inches wide, and about a quarter of an inch 

 thick near the two sharp points. The edges present so symmetrical 

 a curve that the outline may be reproduced from these measurements. 

 It was a surface find. 



Three small elliptical flint knives are represented by the following 

 numbers, all from Seneca river. These are commonly less than two 

 inches long, but may reach seven inches. Fig. 131 is one of the small 

 specimens, made of common flint. It is one and five eighths inches 

 long. Fig. 132 is of similar outline, but made of dark blue flint, and 

 of the same length. It is a neater article. Fig. 133, of grey limestone, 

 is more slender, and is pointed. The point and part of the edges are 

 slightly ground. It is two inches long. Specimens like these were 

 once quite frequent. 



Many stone knives approach what we call a knife form, and vary 

 much in size. One of brown flint, four and three eighths inches long, 

 is but moderately curved in its outline, while others are conspicuously 

 so. A black flint knife, three and one half inches long, found on the 

 Oswego river, is very distinctly curved in this way. Fig. 135 is of 

 this curved form, and is quite thin and sharp. It seems to have had 

 a straighter part of some length, for insertion in a handle. This has 

 been partly broken off, but the remainder of the implement is still 

 three and one quarter inches long. It is of brown flint, and comes 

 from the Seneca river. Evans described some curved knives in Great 

 Britain, much like these, and thought them peculiar to that land, but 

 could assign no use for them. They seem well adapted for several 

 purposes, but their very form suggests the knife, alike available in 

 war or hunting. 



