. A narrative history of the town of Cohasset, Massachusetts . No. 1. No. 2. No. 3. Reduced to one third diameter. Three Kinds of Stone Sinkers made by the Indians. No. 1 found at Straits Pond. No. 2 found at Lily Pond. No. 3 found in Beech-wood, near Doane Street. they last led the arrow shaft, which long ago has rottedoff. Stone knife blades, the longest measuring three inches,are among our collection, and any one who knows the usesto which wild Indians nowadays put their knives mayguess what blood may have followed some of these stoneblades. Spearheads, one of them found on Government Islan
. A narrative history of the town of Cohasset, Massachusetts . No. 1. No. 2. No. 3. Reduced to one third diameter. Three Kinds of Stone Sinkers made by the Indians. No. 1 found at Straits Pond. No. 2 found at Lily Pond. No. 3 found in Beech-wood, near Doane Street. they last led the arrow shaft, which long ago has rottedoff. Stone knife blades, the longest measuring three inches,are among our collection, and any one who knows the usesto which wild Indians nowadays put their knives mayguess what blood may have followed some of these stoneblades. Spearheads, one of them found on Government Island,are among the hints of Indian fishing art. 72 HISTORY OF COHASSET. Sinkers, two with a hole through the stone, and onewith a groove around it the long way, are in the showcaseamong the recent i( finds. A little fragment of a stone drill is there, and is a fairsuggestion to account for holes in softer stone. Pestles, made almost good enough by nature, and usedby the Indians for pounding their corn, are among thehints of Indian womens Stone Bobs, made by the Indians for spinning, or weaving,or something else. There are three specimens of spinning bobs that areprobable evidence of one of the Indian modes of spinninghemp into fish lines and ropes and other cordage. One of them, the size of a hens egg, with a little knobon the end, was stirred out of its long slumbers in a fieldon Sohier Street, on the side of Deer Hill. Another, a very much heavier stone, eight inches long,with the same sort of a knob, came from North Main THE ABORIGINES. 73 Street, and would have twisted a cord as large as a clothes-line, if that had been its use. The other one of the threewas dumped upon Border Street, one day, with a lot ofgravel from Edward E. Towers gravel pit. One of the most interesting of the collection of Indianrelics is a fragment of soapstone, weighing about a thirdof a pound. It is five eighths of an inch thick, and hasan even curvature that proves it to have been a part of ake
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