Identifier: annualreportofbu15smit (find matches)
Title: Annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution
Year: 1880 (1880s)
Authors: Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of Ethnology
Subjects: Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology Ethnology Indians
Publisher: Washington : G.P.O.
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Kahle/Austin Foundation and Omidyar Network

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n plates lii and liii. Occasional specimens showconsiderable elaboration, and it is quite possible to assemble a seriesshowing a complete gradation from the simplest notched ax to sym-metrically shaped and well-finished forms of grooved axes. All of the forms referred to as picks, and which pertain largely to thequarrying and working of soai)Stone, are abundantly illustrated underthe head of cut-stone implements, with which they are placed, notbecause they are themselves in any sense cut stones, but because theywere employed in cutting the soaijstone and because it seems betterthat all phenomena pertaining to that interesting and important sub-ject be kept together. To obtain a complete notion of the ruder formsof flaked-stoue implements it will therefore be necessarj^ to turn tothe pages treating of steatite. A few other implements of correspondingly rude character areshaped exclusively by flaking, though in many cases continued use BUREAU OF ETHNOLOGY FIFTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT PLLVtll
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OUTLINES OF GROOVED AXES ILLUSTRATING THE RANGE OF FORM COMMON IN THE TIDEWATER REGION HOLMES) RUDE FLAKED IMPLEMENTS 93 has given them the appearance of pecked, abraded, or )iolished forms.In ((, plate liv, we have a hammer or sledge—a llattish bowlder notchedon the sides for hafting. The flat face is shown at the left and thelirofile at the right. The smaller objects of this class may have beenused for sinkers and the larger jrossibly for anchors, for sledges, oreven for weapons of war and the chase, and, properly hafled, wouldhave been as highly eftective as the more elaborately finished articles.The lower figure in this plate is an oblong bowlder that was probablyhafted as a sledge, and the ends have been fi-actured by use. Exam-ples of this class sometimes show traces of wear by the haft. The foregoing varieties (^f rudely flaked stones are those most char-acteristic of the inhabited sites, including fishing grounds, shell heaps,and village-sites generally, in the Potomac and C

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