. Bulletin. Ethnology. use, as mortars, pestles, mullers, and hammer-stones, in intimate asso- ciation with the dark-colored and the light-colored stone implements described above, made of local materials, chiefly quartzite and sandstone. Their form in cases is so liighly specialized and typical as to enable us to say with confidence that the makers were well ad- vanced in the arts of bar- barian life, and no good reason appears in the manner of their occur- rence or in the specimens themselves for assuming that all do not pertain to the same or to kindred peoples and to the same or approximat
. Bulletin. Ethnology. use, as mortars, pestles, mullers, and hammer-stones, in intimate asso- ciation with the dark-colored and the light-colored stone implements described above, made of local materials, chiefly quartzite and sandstone. Their form in cases is so liighly specialized and typical as to enable us to say with confidence that the makers were well ad- vanced in the arts of bar- barian life, and no good reason appears in the manner of their occur- rence or in the specimens themselves for assuming that all do not pertain to the same or to kindred peoples and to the same or approximately the same time. Hammers or club- heads, which may have served in the domestic arts or in war and the chase are illustrated in figures 13 and 14. Two mortars, one a block of quartzite with a shallow depression in the upper surface and the other a large fragment of the same stone with a deeper depression, are included in the collection. A muller or muller- pestle of remarkable proportions is shown in figure 33; this is a sym- metrical, well-finished slab of gritty sandstone20| inches long, 7| inches wide at the widest part, and If inches thick. The flat faces, toward the middle, are somewhat smoothed by use. The feature that distin- guishes this from kindred utensils is the narrowing to a point at one end. Another specimen of sunilar type, but smaller, is represented by a large fragment. A cylindrical pestle with a tapering top, made of the same stone as the above, is shown in figure 34; this is 7| inches long and 3 inches in diameter and is. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology. Washington : G. P. O.
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