off small flakes by pressure, using a small pointed bone in 
the right hand for that purpose. From this it was evident 
a/ 
that John Smith's story was no myth*" S ^ t^rri -cV~ 
a/ Sellers, George Escol - Observations on b tone-chipping, 
Smithsonian Kept. 1865 Ft* X, pp, 872-5, 
A similar process identical with the blade outlining 
process described by Beckwith* sis demonstrated by an aged 
w’asho© Indian for the benefit of Mr* S, L« Lee who described 
it in a letter addressed to Professor 0. T. Mason, dated 
Carson City, hevada, 1904, The chipping implements ./ere two 
points, a large and a small one, made of buckhorn re in- 
forced with a piece of “rabbit brush 9 and wrapped with 
bucks bin# These articles were later presented to the 
Museum by hr, Lee, and are illustrated in Fig, 2, The 
significance of the i! rabbit brush' 1 is not bade out. 
That .state on account of its hardness and bril^an ^' 
was unsuited for the manufacture of chipping implement? 
