. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution . FiS. 12. SrEAK-HBADs OR Knives. A STUDY OF PREHISTORIC ANTHROPOLOGY. 639 Every finder should examine his specimens carefully for evidences ofany sort of attachment, and if found the specimens should be for-warded for Fig. Dagger of Gbat Flint. (Cat. No. 933U, U. S. Nat. Mus. From a mound in Alabama. Collected by N. T. Lupton.) The Museum possesses one specimen of a knife or dagger with thehandle complete, chipped from a single piece of flint somewhat afterthe fashion of like implements from Scand
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution . FiS. 12. SrEAK-HBADs OR Knives. A STUDY OF PREHISTORIC ANTHROPOLOGY. 639 Every finder should examine his specimens carefully for evidences ofany sort of attachment, and if found the specimens should be for-warded for Fig. Dagger of Gbat Flint. (Cat. No. 933U, U. S. Nat. Mus. From a mound in Alabama. Collected by N. T. Lupton.) The Museum possesses one specimen of a knife or dagger with thehandle complete, chipped from a single piece of flint somewhat afterthe fashion of like implements from Scandinavia. It also possesses adozen or more specimens of knives, principally from California, thehandles being short, with the flint blade inserted and fastened withbitumen. In some cases the handle has been preserved, but in othersthe bitumen alone remains as evidence of the attachment.
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