Antiquities of the southern Indians, particularly of the Georgia tribes . , we may speak with at leastsome degree of confidence. Numbers 1, 2, 3, and 4, Plate XIV., may be regard-ed as typical specimens of the ordinary chisels. Theyare all made of greenstone, carefully polished. Num-bers 2 and 4 were, in all likelihood, haffced in socketsof wood, stags-horn, or bone, in like manner as those,of not dissimilar shape, which have been found in thecurious and most interesting lake-dwellings of Switzer-land and other parts of Europe. Others wanted han-dles, and their heads give ample evidence of the
Antiquities of the southern Indians, particularly of the Georgia tribes . , we may speak with at leastsome degree of confidence. Numbers 1, 2, 3, and 4, Plate XIV., may be regard-ed as typical specimens of the ordinary chisels. Theyare all made of greenstone, carefully polished. Num-bers 2 and 4 were, in all likelihood, haffced in socketsof wood, stags-horn, or bone, in like manner as those,of not dissimilar shape, which have been found in thecurious and most interesting lake-dwellings of Switzer-land and other parts of Europe. Others wanted han-dles, and their heads give ample evidence of the factthat they were driven by means of a small wooden orstone maul. These implements are generally thin,varying in length from two and a half to eight inches,and in width from one to three inches. They areground from both sides, to form the cutting edge. Invarious relic-beds and shell-heaps which I. have ex-amined (e. g., those on the banks of the SavannahEiver, especially in Columbia and Kichmond Counties,and on the islands and headlands along the coast), I Plate CHISELS AISD GOUGES. 2S7 have found the larger bones of the deer, the bear, andthe buffalo, fractured longitudinally and split caves of France and Spain afford proof that thebones of animals were there split and crushed by theprimitive peoples in order to extract marrow fromthem. The Laplanders, the Esquimaux, the Austra-lians and other savage nations have been doing thesame thing 1 within the historic period; and it is notimprobable that in splitting bones for this purpose,these chisels were in part used by the Southern In-dians. Some of these implements are square, with flatsides ; others are cylindrical, with the sides somewhatconvex; others still, being quite thin, are brought to acutting edge, both at the end, and for a considerabledistance on either side. Those made of flint were firstchipped and then ground. The greenstone specimensare carefully polished in every part. The gouge differs from the
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