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Fig. 8.— A heavy curved blade, possibly mounted as a Flu 
or woman’s knife. From central New Brunswick. 
Fig. 9. — Not unlike the last in outline, but a much thinner 
blade. Made from a single large flake, the edge being chipped 
and worn as through much use. These rudely chipped blades 
which show evidences of having been used as knives, are very 
numerous on ancient camp sites. There are about twenty-five 
or thirty in the collection. 
Figs. 9a- 18 show some common forms of stone scrapers found 
in New Brunswick. The collection contains about 127 well 
made examples. The writer has classed as scrapers those flaked 
stone implements which are flat or concave on one side and 
convex on the other, with a rounded end, giving a curved scraping 
edge. Among the uses of the scraper, that of dressing hides 
probably took first place. They were also employed in wood- 
work, sharpening bone implements, scraping roots, etc. It is 
interesting to note that the Eskimo are using scrapers almost 
identical with those in our collection. These are mounted in 
bone and wooden handles. There is no doubt the New Bruns- 
wick scrapers were used in the same manner as the Eskimo 
use them at the present time. 
Fig. 9a is a good example of the larger scrapers. The 
material is a very fine gray sandstone or felsite, two and one- 
half by three and one-quarter inches. Many scrapers are 
irregular in outline like this one, but all have well finished 
cutting edges. 
Fig. 10 shows a beautiful little scraper, seven-eighths of an 
inch in length. One of five found on an old camp site on the 
Portobello Stream. These five scrapers are made of red jasper 
and are almost exactly alike in size and appearance. The 
collection contains about twenty-two of these small, almost 
circular scrapers. 
Figs. 11, 12, and 15 are about one and one-quarter inches 
in length and are typical of a large number of medium sized 
scrapers. 
Figs. 13 and 14 are beautifully finished implements made of 
banded red and black jasper-like rock. They are two and three- 
