Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution .. . Pig. 44. i rrooved adze. Km. I:.. Grooved adz 0. Roughly chipped, with notches often at the middle but sometimesnearer one end. Probably most of these were sinkers; 1ml as abovestated the edges show marks of use, apparently in scraping, digging,or striking. Of these the following examples are in the Bureau collec-tion: From several localities in eastern Tennessee, 40 of argillite; fromMontgomery county, North Carolina, 24 of argillite and quartzite; 72 STONE ART. [KTII. ANN. IS from Kanawha valley, We
Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution .. . Pig. 44. i rrooved adze. Km. I:.. Grooved adz 0. Roughly chipped, with notches often at the middle but sometimesnearer one end. Probably most of these were sinkers; 1ml as abovestated the edges show marks of use, apparently in scraping, digging,or striking. Of these the following examples are in the Bureau collec-tion: From several localities in eastern Tennessee, 40 of argillite; fromMontgomery county, North Carolina, 24 of argillite and quartzite; 72 STONE ART. [KTII. ANN. IS from Kanawha valley, West Virginia, and from Savannah, Georgia, afew specimens of the same materials. Celts. What is true of the uses and distribution of stone axes applies withmuch the same force to what are called celts—not a good descriptiveterm, but one which is now given to the implement in lieu of somethingbetter. It would appear difficult or impossible to do with these rudetools any work for which we commonly use an ax or hatchet; and yet,by the aid of fire, or even without it, the aborigines contrived to accom-plish a great d
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