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on the inner, or under side, while the shape of the 

 chipped stone blade seems to indicate that it was placed 

 on the outside. Hence, the former use of stone blades 

 for these scrapers must be considered doubtful. The 

 iron blades are bound to the wedge-shaped haft, which 

 each downward blow, when the tool is in use, forces 

 tightly into the binding. When the pressure is re- 

 moved the blade and binding may slip off. To prevent 

 this, some tools are provided with a cord running from 



Fig. 17. Hide Scrapers. 



the end of the handle once or twice around its middle 

 and thence to the binding of the blade. Again a 

 curved iron blade is used, one end of which is bound 

 near the middle of the handle. These types (Fig. 17) 

 are widely distributed throughout the Plains, but the 

 curved iron blade seems to be most frequent among 

 the Arapaho and Cheyenne, and wooden handles 

 among the Comanche. 



On the other hand, fleshing tools, chisel-shaped with 



