Annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . Fig. 21—Rude pick made by sharpening quartzite bowlder. they were made for use in the potstone shop. One made of gray erup-tive rock is blade-shaped and has a tine chisel-like point or edge. It isshown in a,a, plate lxxxviii. 122 STONE IMPLEMENTS [ETH, ANN. 15 Another spccimeu (illustrated in b,b, plate lxxxvi) is of greenish-gray slaty-looking eruptive rOck, very slightly altered by cheinifalchanges. It is rather rudely chipped along both sides, and the pointhas been made quite sharp by grinding. Proper
Annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . Fig. 21—Rude pick made by sharpening quartzite bowlder. they were made for use in the potstone shop. One made of gray erup-tive rock is blade-shaped and has a tine chisel-like point or edge. It isshown in a,a, plate lxxxviii. 122 STONE IMPLEMENTS [ETH, ANN. 15 Another spccimeu (illustrated in b,b, plate lxxxvi) is of greenish-gray slaty-looking eruptive rOck, very slightly altered by cheinifalchanges. It is rather rudely chipped along both sides, and the pointhas been made quite sharp by grinding. Properly liafted as a pick, oras a chisel to be driven by a mallet, this little celt would have been avery effective tool in shaping and trimming the vessels. As it stands,without hafting, it is too small for effective use. A small chisel fromthe southern hill is given in c,c in the same plate. From the soil that filled one of the shallow pits on the southernmargin of the crest of the hill, a chipped tool of unusual shape, givenin a,a, plate lxxxvii, was obtained. It resembles somewhat the
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