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blades of these types were probably used for cutting up 
seals and whales, but it is uncertain whether, or how, they 
were hafted. 
Side-scrapers (‘racloirs’) are numerous in the collection 
from Navarin (Fig. 12, nos. 1-7), and usually consist of large 
flakes, unworked on the bulbar surface and with one of the 
longer margins flaked along to produce a bevelled edge, 
which varies in its angle of steepness. The other long 
margin is often unworked and blunt, for holding in the hand 
(Fig. 12, nos. i, 2). In others this edge is sharp as in no. 3. 
Another specimen has the margin flaked to a bevel all round 
(no. 4), though far more carefully along one side than the 
other, which, perhaps, was merely blunted for the hand¬ 
grip. No. 5 shows an example in which the distal end is 
broadly rounded and the bevel-flaking extends round both 
lateral and distal margins, the butt at the bulbar end of the 
flake being alone unworked. 
A sub-triangular specimen (no. 6) has one edge flaked 
to a serviceable bevelled edge, the other two edges being 
very coarsely flaked. The opposite surface (bulbar) has 
had several flakes detached from it, apparently to improve 
the hand-grip. 
Another sub-triangular example offers an analogy to the 
‘Moustierian points’, inasmuch as two of the margins are 
bevel-flaked all along and converge to form a pointed end. 
The base of the triangle is sharp, though untrimmed. The 
opposite surface shows departure from the Moustierian 
resemblance, as large flake-scars cover the area. On this 
surface, however, there is no retouching of the edges. 
These ‘racloir’ types almost throughout strikingly re¬ 
semble, both in shape and in flaking-technique, implements 
of the Moustierian culture-phase, and it is interesting to note 
that in the whole series of stone implements collected on 
Navarin Island, in the Yaghan area, one can detect close 
