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occur. 'V\\v\ were |)i()l)al)l\- ha1"t('(l l>y taking a stick at one end of which 

 projected a short arm at ri^ht an^:les with the shaft, hiving the fiat side 

 of the blade aj^ainst this arm and binding it on with sinew, thongs, or 

 withes. Tlie groove, of course, was of aid in securing the hhide to the 

 liandle. Adzes of stone, hafted in this manner, liave been obtained on 

 the North Pacific Coast. Tlie ceh adze seems not unconnnon. })Ut the 

 grooved adze is raic, neither form being nearly so abundant as in the New 

 England region. 



(ioiKjcs. The stone gouge is rare, and seems always to be a plain, 

 single-bladed affair without the transverse grooves so frequenth' seen 

 in New l^ngland specimens, and hereabouts is always easily distinguished 

 from the adze. Less than half a dozen specimens have been seen by the 

 writer fiom this entire area, although i)ro})ably (juite as much work in 

 wood was done by. the New Yoik Coastal Algonkin as by the New Eng- 

 land Indians. 



Pestles. The long pestle occurs throughout the region of the Coa.stal 

 Algonkin of New York, but is nowhere as abuncrant as in New England. 

 They s(H'm always to have been used with the wooden block mortar 

 hereabouts, and are mentioned by the early writers as part of the house- 

 hold ecjuipment of the natives. They do not seem to have been used by 

 the Iroquois to the north and west of this ai'ea either in early or later 

 times. The wooden j^estle of dumb-bell shape seems to have been pre- 

 ferred by them. The latter is used Ijy the Canadian Delaware and may 

 have taken the place of the long stone jx^stle to a great extent in this 

 region. 



MiiUers, Grinders, and Polishing Stones. These are frequent, and 

 consist merely of rounded pebl)les, shaped and worn by use, probably 

 most often in crushing corn. The}' are mentioned by De Vries as being 

 used by the Indians with a fiat stone slab for grinding corn when travel- 

 ing. Some seem to have been used for polishing stone im|.'lements, but 

 it seems hard to draw the hne, as the appearance gained from friction 

 would be quite similar. Such nuillers and their attendant slabs, used for 

 preparing corn meal have within a few years been collected in use among 

 the Oneida Irocjuois of New York, one specimen ])eing in the American 

 Museum collection. 



Sinew Stones. These are pebi)les showing grooves along the edges, 

 l)()l)ularly supposed to have been worn there by rubbing thongs and 

 sinews across the edges to shape them. They occur generally, but are 

 not common. 



