Ontario Sessional Papers, 1891, . Fig. 97. (Full Size). Similar in appearance as this specimen is in the engraving to fig. 93, it istotally ditferent in all but outline. Like fig. 93 it is water-worn and oval, butthe material and its treatment are quite unlike those of the former. In this casethe stone is calcareous, and the two sides have been rubbed down until they areconcave instead oi convex, and in the centre of each hollow a deeper one is sunkabout one-fourth of an inch and nearly a whole inch in diameter. Nearly allsigns of pecking have been removed in the rubbing process. As t
Ontario Sessional Papers, 1891, . Fig. 97. (Full Size). Similar in appearance as this specimen is in the engraving to fig. 93, it istotally ditferent in all but outline. Like fig. 93 it is water-worn and oval, butthe material and its treatment are quite unlike those of the former. In this casethe stone is calcareous, and the two sides have been rubbed down until they areconcave instead oi convex, and in the centre of each hollow a deeper one is sunkabout one-fourth of an inch and nearly a whole inch in diameter. Nearly allsigns of pecking have been removed in the rubbing process. As the material istoo soft to be used for a hammer the production of a disk was probably in aie indebted to Mr. Moses Barrowman of Buffalo, for this specimen, from theState of New York. FIGURED Fig. 98 . ((Quarter Size). This figure represents an implement of brown slate about half an inch thickin the middle, and thinning towards the ends both of which are sharpened. It isthe only article of the kind we have on which any figure is cut. The T likemark has some resemblance to the conventional representations of men made bysome western tribes at the present day. It was procured from Mr. Jos. , and was found near Arkona. 43 54 Victoria. Sessional Papers (No. 21). A. 1891 FLAKED STONES.
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