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valued as specimens of the skill of the fabricator? 17. Are small 
flakes chipped off by pressure or by striking ? 18. What is the 
use of serrated edges ? 19. How are scrapers made ? 20. Are 
arrow-heads used as knives in carving ? 21. In cutting bone or 
wood, are flakes used with a sawing or cutting motion ? 
22. How are small holes, such as the eyes of needles, bored with 
flint ? 23. Are flints used for striking lights ? and are any par¬ 
ticular forms of flints carried for this purpose ? what other mate¬ 
rials are used with the flints for this purpose ? 24. Are flints 
or stones kept in water before working them ? or do they undergo 
any other process before they are worked into implements? 
25. Are the natural forms of stones and flints ever used as im¬ 
plements ? 26. Give the native names of all the different parts 
of implements and materials employed. 27. Is the form of a 
knife or an arrow-head much influenced by accidents of fracture 
during fabrication ? 28. To what extent are the different forms 
designed for special purposes, or merely the result of fashion ? 
29. Do the several forms of implements pass into one another 
by varieties, or are the different types well marked and distinct ? 
30. Are stone implements left as heirlooms ? 31. Are there 
any superstitious usages associated with any of them ? 
32. Since the introduction of metal, are stone implements still 
used for religious purposes, mutilations of the body, or any other 
purpose ? 33. Are metal implements made in imitation of the 
stone ones formerly employed ? 34. Are stone implements used 
as a medium of exchange in lieu of money ? (See also No. XIX. 
Archjeology.) 35. Are they regarded as thunderbolts, and 
supposed to have fallen from the skies ? 36. Are they used as 
amulets ? 
No. LXXXIV.—METALLURGY. 
Smelting; forging \ ores, how found; origin of; uses; black¬ 
smiths, &e. v 
No. LXXXV.—MISCELLANEOUS ARTS AND 
MANUFACTURES. 
All arts and manufactures not included under any special 
heading. 
