The stone age in North America, vol. 1 of 2Moorehead, Warren K. (Warren King)
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The stone age in North America, vol. 1 of 2
Moorehead, Warren K. (Warren King)
Indians of North America -- Antiquities; Stone age -- North America
Willoughby reports that in the Maine graves he found two, four, or even
six adze-blades with certain interments. As some were large, others
small, he concludes, “... two or more of different sizes and both of
types with varying degrees of edge curvature were often the property of
a single individual.”
It is an utter impossibility to present, in this volume, all the
illustrations and information on adzes and gouges in my possession. It
will be observed by readers, I have more than once in “The Stone Age”
lamented that there is not sufficient space in these pages to describe
all the types of certain artifacts.
There are some unusual specimens which defy classification. One of them
is presented in Fig. 244.
Four strange objects are presented in Fig. 245. These do not belong in
the adze or celt class. Yet they are all edged or pointed. As my
problematical class occupies a great deal of space, I have inserted this
figure here.
[Illustration:
FIG. 242. (S. 1–3.) Five beautiful gouges from the collection of A. E.
Marks, Yarmouth, Maine. These present the best types of long slender
gouges in Maine. The Connecticut, Vermont, and Massachusetts forms
are not different.
]
[Illustration:
FIG. 243. (S. 1–3.) Gouges from A. E. Marks’s collection, Yarmouth,
Maine. Some of these were found in graves. All are from Maine,
except one of the central figures.
]
Colonel Young sent me the originals of these specimens for examination
in 1900. They are of dark, reddish-brown stone. It appears like very
fine sandstone or graphite slate. Regarding these specimens, Colonel
Young says:—
“I do not know for what purpose these were used. I sent them to the
Smithsonian Institution for them to determine the nature and character
of the stone, but they could give me no satisfactory statement of what
they were or where they came from. These three articles were found in a
niche of a rock in Pine Mountain, Bell County, Kentucky. At the same
time several arrow-heads were found. I have been able to obtain but one
of the arrow-heads. The stone is unusual and the finish is also very
fine. They were found by a coal-miner, who gave them to a physician,
from whom I got them at Jellico, Kentucky. I know nothing of their
history except the statements of the men as given to me, but they are
handsome specimens and I value them highly.”
[Illustration:
FIG. 244. (S. 1–1.) This is one of those unusual celt-like,
problematical forms, having a depression in the centre. This was
found by Clarence B. Moore, in a mound at Keno Plantation, Morehouse
Parish, Louisiana, and I am indebted to him for the loan of the
illustration.
]
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