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  NEW 
  YORK 
  STATE 
  MUSEUM 
  

  

  totem 
  of 
  grey 
  stone. 
  One 
  of 
  the 
  arrows 
  was 
  translucent, 
  and 
  another 
  

   was 
  of 
  white 
  quartz. 
  The 
  remainder 
  of 
  the 
  arrows 
  and 
  all 
  the 
  knives 
  

   were 
  of 
  native 
  hornstone. 
  The 
  writer 
  has 
  seen 
  a 
  similar 
  article 
  from 
  

   Missouri, 
  and 
  supposes 
  it 
  to 
  have 
  been 
  used 
  in 
  scraping 
  the 
  shafts 
  of 
  

   arrows 
  in 
  the 
  speediest 
  way. 
  

  

  Fig. 
  179 
  has 
  one 
  end 
  rounded, 
  and 
  the 
  other 
  straight. 
  The 
  edges 
  

   are 
  somewhat 
  parallel, 
  but 
  the 
  surface 
  is 
  widest 
  along 
  the 
  center. 
  

   These 
  opposite 
  edges 
  are 
  beveled 
  from 
  opposite 
  surfaces, 
  so 
  that 
  there 
  

   are 
  one 
  or 
  two 
  scraping 
  edges, 
  whichever 
  way 
  it 
  may 
  be 
  turned. 
  It 
  

   is 
  probable 
  that 
  some 
  of 
  the 
  beveled 
  arrows, 
  so 
  called, 
  were 
  scrapers 
  

   of 
  this 
  kind. 
  Part 
  of 
  the 
  length 
  has 
  been 
  lost, 
  so 
  that 
  no 
  scraper 
  now 
  

   appears 
  at 
  that 
  end, 
  if 
  indeed 
  there 
  was 
  ever 
  any 
  there, 
  for 
  in 
  that 
  

   part 
  the 
  edges 
  become 
  sharp, 
  and 
  probably 
  the 
  knife 
  and 
  scraper 
  

   were 
  combined. 
  It 
  comes 
  from 
  the 
  Seneca 
  river, 
  and 
  is 
  made 
  of 
  

   brown 
  flint, 
  still 
  two 
  and 
  seven 
  eighths 
  inches 
  long. 
  A 
  smaller 
  one 
  

   of 
  these 
  has 
  much 
  the 
  same 
  character; 
  the 
  base 
  and 
  edge 
  being 
  bev- 
  

   eled 
  on 
  one 
  side, 
  with 
  the 
  other 
  edge 
  beveled 
  from 
  the 
  other 
  surface. 
  

   It 
  is 
  of 
  light 
  drab 
  flint, 
  one 
  and 
  three 
  quarters 
  inches 
  long, 
  and 
  does 
  

   not 
  have 
  the 
  knife 
  edge 
  of 
  the 
  last 
  mentioned. 
  This 
  was 
  from 
  Three 
  

   River 
  Point. 
  Another 
  similar 
  scraper, 
  of 
  light 
  grey 
  flint, 
  has 
  four 
  

   beveled 
  edges 
  on 
  one 
  side, 
  nearly 
  parallel, 
  and 
  is 
  one 
  and 
  three 
  quar- 
  

   ters 
  inches 
  long. 
  

  

  Some 
  which 
  have 
  been 
  called 
  gambling 
  flints, 
  are 
  small 
  and 
  nearly 
  

   square. 
  They 
  are 
  not 
  all 
  distinctly 
  scrapers, 
  and 
  seem 
  to 
  have 
  been 
  

   Iroquois 
  gun 
  flints, 
  made 
  by 
  themselves 
  for 
  an 
  emergency. 
  The 
  

   beveling 
  is 
  from 
  both 
  sides, 
  as 
  in 
  a 
  knife. 
  As 
  some 
  of 
  these 
  were 
  

   certainly 
  made 
  at 
  a 
  time 
  when 
  the 
  Iroquois 
  used 
  deer 
  buttons 
  and 
  

   peach 
  stones 
  for 
  gambling, 
  and 
  as 
  most 
  of 
  them 
  were 
  associated 
  with 
  

   European 
  articles, 
  they 
  may 
  well 
  be 
  classed 
  as 
  indian 
  gun 
  flints. 
  

   Fig. 
  180 
  is 
  one 
  of 
  these 
  from 
  the 
  Seneca 
  river. 
  It 
  is 
  of 
  dark 
  flint, 
  

   nearly 
  an 
  inch 
  square. 
  The 
  square 
  center 
  is 
  flat, 
  and 
  the 
  stone 
  is 
  

   beveled 
  to 
  the 
  edge 
  on 
  each 
  side. 
  Fig. 
  181 
  shows 
  a 
  Cayuga 
  specimen, 
  

   to 
  which 
  the 
  name 
  of 
  gambling 
  flint 
  has 
  been 
  distinctly 
  given. 
  It 
  is 
  

   of 
  hornstone, 
  and 
  was 
  found, 
  with 
  20 
  others, 
  in 
  a 
  grave 
  well 
  sup- 
  

   plied 
  with 
  European 
  articles. 
  This 
  is 
  an 
  inch 
  across, 
  but 
  others 
  

   were 
  smaller. 
  A 
  gun, 
  bullets, 
  and 
  two 
  gun 
  flints, 
  were 
  among 
  the 
  

  

  