IRREGULAR FORMS OF SCRAPERS. 



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Fig. 14. 1, 2, 3. Thin chert flakes, fashioned to knives with sharp edges. 4. Broken specimen of 



the same kind. 5. Entire knife, tinely finished. 6. Roughly finished scraper or knife. 7. A scraper 



with a rounded spoon-shaped termination. S. A broken scraper or knife. All natural size. 



some special use for which the sharp point was designed. 

 They would be effective instruments for flaying a rabbit 

 or for opening a fish or a fowl. Several scrapers agree 

 in being fashioned with a rounded spoon-like termina- 

 tion instead of a point (Fig. 14, no. 7). The edges of 

 these are well rounded and worn. Nine specimens were 

 long and narrow and had only been chipped on one 



