ABORIGINAL CHIPPED STONE IMPLEMENTS OF NEW YORK 7 1 



three quarters wide, with a longer base than in the last. All these, 

 as well as the following two, are from the Seneca river. 



Fig. 198 is much like these, but is simply and angularly notched, 

 and has a broad scraper edge. The material is black flint, and it is 

 an inch long, with a little greater width. It is a rare form. Fig. 199 

 is another small and peculiar form, made of dark flint, and seven 

 eighths of an inch long. It has a scraper edge nearly all around, and 

 the notched stem seems to have been intended for insertion in a 

 handle. The form is unique. Fig. 200 is another odd form from the 

 same river, having rounded projections on the sides, and it is much 

 the thickest at the scraper end, though having a somewhat massive 

 character throughout. It is of quite dark flint, one and one quarter 

 inches long by an inch broad. , 



Some others combine a short drill with a broad scraper base, but 

 these are usually rather small. The combinations with knives are 

 many. Few implements vary more, and their forms had probably 

 much to do with special uses, as in dressing hides, cleaning fish, or 

 smoothing wooden implements. Their complete disappearance in 

 recent prehistoric times in New York, along with that of other imple- 

 ments quite as remarkable, argues a great and sudden change in the 

 dwellers or visitors here. The Iroquois seem not to have used them, 

 nor do we find any suggestion of a similar implement, as in the sub- 

 stitution of bone or horn perforators for those of stone. The makers 

 of the stone scrapers disappeared from New York long ago, and yet 

 it is clear that they were once very widely used, reaching the Pacific 

 coast and even Mexico. Plainly the modern indian did not inherit 

 some of the most remarkable arts of his predecessors. This is one of 

 the significant revelations of archeology. A new race came in and 

 early arts perished. Beyond the making of arrows and axes scarcely 

 anything survived in New York. 



This, however, must be understood of peculiar implements. The 

 dressing of hides still went on, and some of the results have hardly 

 been surpassed. If the Iroquois did not use the stone scraper, or any 

 thing closely resembling it, they employed something quite as 

 effective, and perhaps in a similar way. Corlaer, in 1635, gave cana- 

 goerat as the Mohawk word for scraper, which may or may not have 



