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to fabricate tbe different objects with stone implements. 15. 
Are there special workers of stone implements, or does each 
man make his own ? 16. Are there any implements which are 
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 particular forms of flints carried for 
this purpose ? what other materials 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 implements ? 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 imple¬ 
ments 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 em ployed ? 34. Are 
stone implements found in the earth? and are they of similar 
forms to those of stone or metal now in use ? 35. Are stone 
implements used as a medium of exchange in lieu of money ? 
(See also No. XL VI., Archaeology.) 36. Are they regarded 
as thunderbolts, and supposed to have fallen from the skies ? 
37. Are they used as amulets ? 38. Are suitable pieces for 
implements ever produced by heating a stone and shivering 
it by dashing cold water upon it ? 
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