Annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . f the Clifton quarry 115 19. Rude pick of quartz, slightly sharpened by riaking {i actual size). 120 20. Rude pick of quartz, slightly sharpened liy flaking (i actual size). 121 21. Rude pick made by sharpening({uartzite bowlder (i actual size).. 121 22. Rude pick made by sharpening quartzite bowlder {i actual size).. 122 23. Implement used in cutting steatite; from quarry in Howard county, Maryland (A actual size) 127 24. Implement used in cutting steatite; from (|uarry in Howard county, Maryland (f act
Annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . f the Clifton quarry 115 19. Rude pick of quartz, slightly sharpened by riaking {i actual size). 120 20. Rude pick of quartz, slightly sharpened liy flaking (i actual size). 121 21. Rude pick made by sharpening({uartzite bowlder (i actual size).. 121 22. Rude pick made by sharpening quartzite bowlder {i actual size).. 122 23. Implement used in cutting steatite; from quarry in Howard county, Maryland (A actual size) 127 24. Implement used in cutting steatite; from (|uarry in Howard county, Maryland (f actual .size) 128 25. Implement used in cutting steatite; from the Olney quarry (A ac- tual size) 129 26. Implement used in cutting steatite; from Sandyspring quarry (A actual size) 130 27. Gouge-like implement grooved for hafting (J actual size) 131 28. Map showing distribution of rejects of manufacture 138 29. Map showing distribution of implements 139 29a. Cross section illustrating successive removal of flakes from bowlders 152 euftEAU OF EtHNOLOGY FIFTEENfH ANNUAL REPORT FRONTISPIECE. GROUP IN PLASTER ILLUSTRATING THE WORK CARRIED ON IN AN ABORIGINAL QUARRY WORKSHOPPiepared by the author for the Woilds Columbian Exposition at Chicago, See Supplementary Note I, page 1 50 STONE IMPLEMENTS OF THE POTOMAC-CHESAPEAKETIDEWATER PROVINCE By William Henry Holmes PREFATORY NOTES The Indian tribes inhabiting the great province drained by the tide-water tribntaries of the Chesapeake were simple tishermen, hunters,and warriors whose art aimed at little beyond the supply of jiassingneeds, and the district now furnishes almost nothing in the way of artremains to attract the popular eye. Little has been preserved beyondthe simplest varieties of stone implements; but inconspicuous and ele-mentary as these objects are, they have attracted much attention onthe part of archeologists, and are now eagerly studied because of theirbearing, not only on the history of the region and its people, but on
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