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Knives Rubbed from Slate. No points or blades for knives rubbed 
from slate were found here, although the long, leaf-shaped piece of argilla- 
ceous slate illustrated on Plate XXXII, figure 13, may have been in process 
of manufacture into such a point. There is a well-made, shouldered, slate 
point, with lateral expansions at the base, in the Des Brisay collection, 
Provincial Museum, Halifax, which may have come from Lunenburg 
county, like most of the material in that collection. 
Knives Made of Copper. No knives made of copper were found. 
Such knives were discovered at Backman beach, two from that locality 
being in the Provincial Museum, Halifax. 
Knife Handles. The thin fragment of a bone artifact (Plate XXXII, 
figure 6) with a piece cut off at one end had probably been a knife handle. 
This is suggested by a deep V-shaped groove, along one of the narrow 
sides, which may have held the blade. The antler artifact described as 
probably a wedge (Plate XXX, figure 1) may also have been used as a 
knife handle after the working edge was broken, the hole in the larger 
end forming a convenient socket for the insertion of the blade. 
Knives, etc., Made from Incisor Teeth. Six incisor teeth of the beaver, 
with the cutting end artificially ground to a point, were found. These 
were probably used as knives (Plate XXX, figures 5-7). That in figure 7 
has the root cut off. The specimen shown in figure 8 is made from the 
incisor of a porcupine. The incisor of a woodchuck, seen in figure 9, 
has both sides at the cutting end slightly ground, perhaps to make a knife 
or some other implement. 
Drills. The narrow, pointed end of the irregularly shaped artifact, 
chipped from quartz, on Plate XXX, figure 10, probably was used for 
drilling holes. The point with attenuated tip, seen on Plate XXIII, figure 
4, may have been used for a similar purpose. 
Scrapers Used in Woodworking, etc. Plate XXX, figure 11, illustrates 
a nearly quadrangular, thin flake of pinkish jasper, delicately chipped to a 
bevelled edge on three sides, which was probably used as a scraper for 
smoothing bone or wooden artifacts, just as carpenters use a piece of glass 
for the purpose. 
Whetstones. Seven whetstones were found. Three are made of 
schistose slate, two of sandstone, one (Plate XXX, figure 12) of granitic 
rock, and another (figure 14) of light grey, argillaceous slate. One is a 
naturally flattened thin beach pebble, not much worn from use. Three 
are hollowed from long use. Most of them were used on both of the 
flat sides. One was chipped to a more or less rectangular form. These 
stones probably served for sharpening a variety of tools and some may 
also have been used as polishers. 
The spatulate pebble on Plate XXX, figure 13, has part of one edge 
slightly ground, also, perhaps, from use as a whetstone. 
The flattened reverse side of the large stone illustrated on Plate 
XXVII, figure 2, presents plainly recognizable traces of having been used 
as a rubbing stone, on which bone awls and the cutting edges of stone 
adzes and celts were probably rubbed into shape. 
