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
There are rude, notched chipped implements of the type shown in Fig.
172, which may not be of flint but of other materials. This one is from
Mr. A. M. Brooking’s collection, Trumbull County, Nebraska. It is very
like types from Pennsylvania. A large implement slightly notched in the
side, found in La Jara, Colorado, is shown in Fig. 175. This is of clear
chalcedony, and a very fine specimen.
[Illustration:
FIG. 173. (S. 1–1.) Notched flint axe, or rough implement from the
collection of F. Wetherington, Paducah, Kentucky. This is of chert
and may have originally been a turtleback, but was afterwards hafted
in a handle.
]
Mr. Dudley A. Martin of Pennsylvania has mounted a large, flint
implement in a handle which I show in Fig. 176. Two specimens, one from
Iowa and one from Kansas, from our Andover collection, are shown in Fig.
174, and one from Kentucky in Fig. 173.
An unusually well-chipped, notched, flint axe is shown in Fig. 177. It
was found by Mr. W. H. Davis near the mouth of the Muskingum River in
Ohio. The types of flint celts vary.
I show five ordinary ones from Mr. Mitchell’s collection, Ripon,
Wisconsin, in Fig. 178, and the ten various forms of celts from the
Andover collection in Fig. 180.
[Illustration:
FIG. 174. (S. 2–3.) Collection of Phillips Academy, Andover. One from
Iowa, the other from Kansas. The edges are worn smooth and they both
show considerable use. They are covered with patina and appear very
old.
]
[Illustration:
FIG. 175. (S. 1–1.) Double-bitted war-axe, chipped out, but never
polished. Dull chalcedony, tipped at each cutting edge with red.
Flecked in the middle with gray spots. Luther A. Norland collection,
La Jara, Colorado.
]
[Illustration:
FIG. 176. (S. 2–5.) Supposed method of hafting the notched flint
implements. Such objects would make formidable weapons for use in
close quarters. Collection of Dudley A. Martin, Duboistown,
Pennsylvania.
]
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