History of Vermilion County, together with historic notes on the Northwest, gleaned from early authors, old maps and manuscripts, private and official correspondence, and other authentic, though, for the most part, out-of-the-way sources . ppears to havelost about an inch in length, its point hav-ing been broken oft. The blade will cutcloth or paper very readily. The mate-rial is white flint. Fig. 32 may be classed with Fig. material is dark fine-grained flint, andthe implement perfect. There is a per-ceptible wind to the edges of the stem,while the edges of the head are parallelwith th
History of Vermilion County, together with historic notes on the Northwest, gleaned from early authors, old maps and manuscripts, private and official correspondence, and other authentic, though, for the most part, out-of-the-way sources . ppears to havelost about an inch in length, its point hav-ing been broken oft. The blade will cutcloth or paper very readily. The mate-rial is white flint. Fig. 32 may be classed with Fig. material is dark fine-grained flint, andthe implement perfect. There is a per-ceptible wind to the edges of the stem,while the edges of the head are parallelwith the plane of the implement, and sosharp that they will cut cloth, leather orpaper. It was probably used to bore holesand cut out skins that were being manu-factured into clothing and other articles. Fig. 33 may have been made for the same uses asFigs. 31 and 32. The blade is shaped like a spade,the stem representing the handle. It tapers fromthe bit of the blade where the stem joins theshoulder, which is the thickest part of the imple-ment, and from the shoulder it tapers to both bit is shaped like a gouge, and makes a circularincision. It is a smooth piece of workmanshiD, made Vermilion . r A county, 111. out of white Vermilioncounty, 111.
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