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CHIPPED IMPLEMENTS. 



specimen has been used for drilling in stone. A noticeable feature of this 

 implement and of others, as the one referred to above, and a third in the 

 National Museum (No. 18305), Fig. 15, from Santa Cruz Island, is the 



Fig. 15. 



Quartz drill. 



three-sided stem, as already mentioned. This peculiarity gives the appear- 

 ance of this drill being really an unfinished specimen of Fig. 1 3, and also 

 indicates that triangular drills were those commonly in use. If so, Fig. 13 

 is properly classed. (See description of "Pipes," on a subsequent page.) 



It is scarcely possible to determine the particular use of any flint tool, 

 unless we can find associated with it some finished weapon, implement, or 

 ornament which shows that just such a tool as found is absolutely neces- 

 sary or eminently adapted to fashion it. In such a case, there is little 

 doubt as to the proper designation to give the specimen.* 



The material of which Fig. 14 is made is a dense, opaque, greyish- 

 white flint, that readily yields to delicate flaking, and of itself suggests no 

 reason why the drill proper should have attached to it so unnecessarily 

 heavy and rough a base. 



* Other forms of these large drill-like implements have heen collected on the islands by Mr. 

 Sclraiuacher and Jlr. Bowers. Some of them approximate the rude chisels, and it is very probable 

 that these large implements were used for many purposes besides that of drilling, among which was 

 that of digging out the steatite pots. — F. W. P. 



