Annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . HOLMES] DISTRIBUTION BY GENESIS AND FUNCTION 145 and use. Each form or class of iiu])lement will thus be fouud to haveleft in its wake a trail of wasters or rejects peculiar to itself. Untilthese are understood, selected, and set apart, there is necessarily muchconfusion. It is seen by a study of plate ci, in conjunction with the representa-tions of actual specimens in preceding plates, that a half or more of therange of native flaked forms are actually not implements. The sepa-ration is approximately in
Annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . HOLMES] DISTRIBUTION BY GENESIS AND FUNCTION 145 and use. Each form or class of iiu])lement will thus be fouud to haveleft in its wake a trail of wasters or rejects peculiar to itself. Untilthese are understood, selected, and set apart, there is necessarily muchconfusion. It is seen by a study of plate ci, in conjunction with the representa-tions of actual specimens in preceding plates, that a half or more of therange of native flaked forms are actually not implements. The sepa-ration is approximately indicated by the upper brackets marked notimplements and imi)lemeuts. It will be observed that this divisionseparates the cache forms or blanks of the middle column into twoparts. Portions of this class of objects were mere quarry shapes,distributed to be elaborated when needed, but some of them wereprobably utilized in their blank shape as knives, etc, and some show aslight degree of specialization (as in number 9 of the lirst series), andthus i^roperly take their place with implements.
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