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cutting, and we can readily see that, provided with a handle, they 
would be well adapted to the use he mentions with refe:ence to 
= Scandinavian specimens. One argument in favor of these spec- 
imens being used for domestic purposes, is that we have found 
_ them numerous in certain localities, where the large number of 
; fragments of pottery, “ corncrushers,” pestles, etc., shows that on 
; that spot once was a dwelling or village of those ancient people 
l who utilized the “relics” that we have been describing. As to 
= their manufacture, we have but to remark that they appear to 
; have been made from the mineral directly, and not from the bases 
; of broken spearheads, our reason being that they are generally 
__ thicker and wider than spearheads; though, on reference to the 
= spearhead (Fig. 69), it will be seen that the basal third of this 
i specimen would make a “stretcher” very similar to the one we 
have figured here, 79. These Fig. 79 
Stretchers or skin dressers are 
quite abundant. From one field 
of but eight or ten acres we have 
over seventy specimens, all agree- 
ing remarkably in size and shape, E F 
and, with one exception, all are (27 © 
cut from jasper. 4 
Somewhat allied to scrapers, 
hatchets; and in a measure sui 
generis, is the next illustration we - 
shall give. The specimen itself 
-Ba light yellow jasper “ flake,” mies mec 
subsequently chipped about its edges. If a “hatchet” handle 
Were attached to thé centre of the flatter side, or base, the stone 
Would then mak 
hatchet. If, however, a short bone handle had covered the 
ue, or “skinner,” although now its edge is too irregular and 
baa for skinning. When sharper, however, it could have been 
utilized in detaching the tough hide of the bison or a deer; but 
saer or not the bison ever roamed in New Jersey, we know 
Lubbock figures as ‘flint implements,” a series of speci- 
Times ‘en from a tumulus at West Kennet, Eng., (Prehistoric 
‘men. » P. 163, figs. 147 —50;) and to his figure 150 our speci- 
A certainly bears great resemblance. As Sir John Lubbock 
