INDIAN STONE IMPLEMENTS. 481 
with simply hewing, having to deal with a still more stub- 
born material in their flint. The skin dressers, gouges and 
some other implements were made as sharp at the working : 
edges as such stones were capable of, and this was doie 
by rubbing them on fine grained stones. On the sea coast 
pieces of the finest grained greenstone were mostly used, 
some of which, whei found, were as much worn as any 
modern carpenter's hone. 
I have never seen among the relics on the sea coast any 
resembling the scalping knives of the West, or of Europe, 
or any whose peculiar shape suggested that it might have 
been used as a scalping knife. I infer from this that on the 
sea coast the large chippings of stone, having a sharp edge, 
were used as scalping knives. Among some fifteen hundred 
specimens of Indian implements, collected on the sea coast, 
I have never seen more than one, that, from its shape and 
size could possibly have been used as the conventional toma- 
hawk, an axe shaped weapon to be thrown from the hand. 
The illustrations in some of our modern school books are 
more correct when the tomahawk is shown to have been a 
wooden club terminating in a hard woody knob, in which 
had been inserted a large stone point. 
The form of the metallic axe was doubtless copied from 
the same implement used by the inhabitants of the stone 
age. From time to time the metallic axe has varied in form, 
and all the several forms of stone axes I have in my posses- 
Sion have been represented in some of the forms of the 
metallie axe, and as that of the standard axe of to-day is 
precisely that of one of these forms, I cannot doubt but that 
the stone implement supplied the model. 
