Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution .. . Fig. 62,—Thin polished celt. Im. ijj.—Thin polished eelt. Fig. 64.—Thin polished celt. While there are perhaps no true gouges in the collection, there aresome examples of a form between a celt and a gouge, illustrated in figure65, of serpentine, from Caldwell county, North Carolina. Implements of this form are known to have been used to tap sugarmaples, and also to hollow out wooden troughs, and are very common FOWKE] CHISEL-FORM CELTS. 83 in the north, though less abundant in the It
Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution .. . Fig. 62,—Thin polished celt. Im. ijj.—Thin polished eelt. Fig. 64.—Thin polished celt. While there are perhaps no true gouges in the collection, there aresome examples of a form between a celt and a gouge, illustrated in figure65, of serpentine, from Caldwell county, North Carolina. Implements of this form are known to have been used to tap sugarmaples, and also to hollow out wooden troughs, and are very common FOWKE] CHISEL-FORM CELTS. 83 in the north, though less abundant in the It is in, those locali-ties in which bark instead of logs was used for canoes that they aremost numerous. Sometimes they were hollowed the whole length andused as They were also employed instead of celts in hollowingwooden mortars and the like when a more regular concavity was Chisels and Scrapers. The aboriginal implements known as •• chisels are round, elliptical,or rectangular in section. The flint and jasper specimens are generallywidest at the edge, the reverse being usually the casewith those of other material. Most of them ha
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