Annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . y the quarry-shop flaker. Some areentire blades, all of which exhibit more or less palpable defects ofform (as judged by the standards made out by a study of the quarry-shop work and by the ordinary blades found so jilentifuUy on village-sites). Others were broken near the final stage of the shaping, and innumerous cases both pieces were found where they had been droppedby the workman and covered up by the accumulating debris. It willbe noticed that nearly all the whole pieces are excessively thick in so
Annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . y the quarry-shop flaker. Some areentire blades, all of which exhibit more or less palpable defects ofform (as judged by the standards made out by a study of the quarry-shop work and by the ordinary blades found so jilentifuUy on village-sites). Others were broken near the final stage of the shaping, and innumerous cases both pieces were found where they had been droppedby the workman and covered up by the accumulating debris. It willbe noticed that nearly all the whole pieces are excessively thick in somepart, while some are crooked or defective in outline, and we may con-clude that they were rejected on account of some of these are, in my judgment, sufficiently warranted in concluding that mostof those specimens now in fragments were broken in vain efforts toreduce the excessive thickness (as in «, plate xx) or to correct somedefect in outline. Breakage was liable to take place at any stage ofthe work, the danger increasing, however, as the form increased
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