OF THE CAVES OF CRESWELL CRAGS. 



Fig. 2. — Ironstone implement, Robin Hood Cave, \, 



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entirely discarded the implements of stone and bone, relics of such 

 materials are not uncommonly found in graves which cannot be re- 

 garded as ancient. The Shoshones, though mostly provided with 

 tools of iron and steel of approved patterns, are still to be seen em- 

 ploying as a scraper in the dressing of skins a mere ' teshoa,' con- 

 sisting of a small worn boulder, thinner at one end, split through 

 the middle in such a manner as to furnish a rough cutting-edge at 

 one side. There seems to be a considerable advantage in this over any 

 form of knife or other tool which has yet reached them from without ; 

 and it is probable that it will be retained so long as their present 

 method of preparing hides is in vogue " *. Probably those of the 

 Robin-Hood Cave were put to the same use. 



A fragment of " red raddle " from the cave- earth had probably 

 been used for painting. 



The large number of splinters in the cave proves that it was used 

 by the hunters as a place of resort for a considerable time, and that 

 they brought the raw material along with them, and made their 

 cutting-tools as they were wanted, on the spot. The numerous 

 broken bones prove that they were in the habit of breaking bones 

 for the sake of the marrow, after the fashion of many savage tribes 



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Keconnaissance of North-western Wyoming,' by W. A. Jones, p. 261. 



