. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. ■^afife-; ■■■■■■ :^%^ ■ .; ■•V■.^■ 1*5. ■• ■T;,<; : ■, (•.■; ■.■■ )^ - 3,?a NATURAL PEBBLE BEARING SLIGHT MARKS OF USE BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY SEVENTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT PL. XLII ■li^-. TME MELIOT*PE PRINTING BOSTON NATURAL PEBBLE USED AS BONE-CRUSHER McoEE] AVOIDANCE OF EDGED STONES 241* tion brougbt out by -n-eathering ou one side is split ofi, piesnmablj- byiutention, and the fractured surface thus produced is i)artly smoothedby rubbing, probably in use, though possibly by d
. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. ■^afife-; ■■■■■■ :^%^ ■ .; ■•V■.^■ 1*5. ■• ■T;,<; : ■, (•.■; ■.■■ )^ - 3,?a NATURAL PEBBLE BEARING SLIGHT MARKS OF USE BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY SEVENTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT PL. XLII ■li^-. TME MELIOT*PE PRINTING BOSTON NATURAL PEBBLE USED AS BONE-CRUSHER McoEE] AVOIDANCE OF EDGED STONES 241* tion brougbt out by -n-eathering ou one side is split ofi, piesnmablj- byiutention, and the fractured surface thus produced is i)artly smoothedby rubbing, probably in use, though possibly by design. The edges aremore or less battered, especially at the ends, and several rude flakeshave been knocked off, evidently at random and presumably in ordinaryuse as an ahst. The smoother face is wholly natural. The specimenwas picked up in a jacal at Rada Ballena, but bore no marks of recentuse. A tuff implement of suggestively axlikeform is shown in plate XLViii;it is firmer and less pulverulent but more vesicular than most imple-ments of its class; it weighs but 7 ounces ( kilogram). The speci-men was picked up in a ruinous Jacal, which had evidently been occu-pied temporarily within a fortnight, on the summit of the great shell-mound forming Punta Antigualla. The somewhat indelinit
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