. Bulletin. Ethnology. 168 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [boll. 60 deteimination. The unspecialized blades are often found on villag;e sites and in caches far distant from the sources of the raw material, and the specialized projectile points occur throughout tidewater Maryland and Virginia, and in numerous cases are found on the identical sites occupied by Powhatan and other villages of the Poto-. FiG. 52. Bowlder sliowing marks of use as an anvil. (1 actual size.) mac and James Rivers, with the people of which the early colonists came into familiar contact. The group of (juarry workers illust
. Bulletin. Ethnology. 168 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [boll. 60 deteimination. The unspecialized blades are often found on villag;e sites and in caches far distant from the sources of the raw material, and the specialized projectile points occur throughout tidewater Maryland and Virginia, and in numerous cases are found on the identical sites occupied by Powhatan and other villages of the Poto-. FiG. 52. Bowlder sliowing marks of use as an anvil. (1 actual size.) mac and James Rivers, with the people of which the early colonists came into familiar contact. The group of (juarry workers illustrated in figure TjH, now on exhibition in enlarged foi-ni in the National JSIuseum, Tiip Lay-figure jn^igti-ates in the most striking manner possible the Group _ ^ . various features of the quanying and shaping work as determined by the writer through exhaustive investigations. The scene is laid in the Piney Branch quarries and the figures are cos- tumed according to the only existing information regarding the dress of the tribes of tlie Middle Atlantic region—the drawings of John White of the Eoanoke colony, now preserved in the British Museum. Prominence is given to this group since it represents the most im- portant and essential industry of the native tribes—the manufacture of stone implements—without which little advance could have been made in any branch of material culture. The question as to the particular period to which the quarry operations should be attributed has been raised, and some writers have ventured the view that the work is very ancient and attributable to very jirimitive Indian or pre-Indian peoples. This view, how- ever, finds no tangi-ble support. Leaf-shape blades of the type made in such numbers in the quarries are found throughout the tide- water country, associated intimately with the most ordinary remains of the Indian occupancy and on the village sites occupied by 'the historical peoples. The blades made at the quarry are all of the form thro
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