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English: No. 1. Simple flakes used as implements and worked into useful forms ; also a core like those from which they were struck. American Indians.

No. 2. Implement roughed out by flaking a single stone 169,9-43

No. 3. Progressive form from a single stone 202,105

No. 4. Further work in producing a flat blade . 208,109

No. 5. Finely worked implement made by skillful chipping. Missouri 137,927
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Source Walter Hough (1922). Synoptic series of objects in the United States National Museum illustrating the history of inventions. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 60 (2404). 1-47, 56 pl.
Author United States National Museum (Smithsonian Institution), Washington D.C.

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