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Title: Antiquities of the southern Indians, particularly of the Georgia tribes
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Jones, Charles C. (Charles Colcock), 1831-1893
Subjects: Indians of North America Indians of North America
Publisher: New York : D. Appleton and Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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rist or the backof the hand, and thus the steady and forcible use ofthe tool greatly facilitated. Thus employed it wouldhave proved of great value in dressing skins and fordifferent purposes to which a large scraper could havebeen applied. Figs. 9, 10, 12, and 13, Plate XIV.,represent other forms of scrapers manufactured by theprimitive peoples of this region. Flint Knives.—Closely allied to the scraper, andof such construction that they might very readily havebeen used both as knives and scrapers, are numerousleaf-shaped implements of which Figs. 1, 3, 6, 8, and9, Plate XV., may be regarded as typical. These arethin, being chipped from the middle toward the sideswhere they are brought, all around, to a cutting edge.They vary in length from one to six inches, and inwidth from half an inch to three inches and a half.Some of them terminate in points so acute that theyresemble piercers. 1 Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley, page 218, Fig. 114, No. 6.Washington, 1848. Flrde XV.
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1, AM PHOTO-LITHOGRAPHIC CO N.YaOSBORSES PROCESS ELLXT KXrVES. AWLS. BOEEES. 291 Although the forms of flint knives in nse amongthe primitive peojues of this region are various andoften exceedingly rude, numbers 1 to 9, Plate XV.,may be considered the prevailing types.1 The greatanxiety of the Indian was to obtain a cutting edge.This secured, he often expended but little labor uponthe rest of the implement. Consequently, we meetwith many semilunar knives whose backs are thickand square and carelessly chipped. Such were designedto be held in the hand. The backs of others are thin,and these were probably hafted in longitudinal han-dles of bone or wood. Other knives are almost razor-shaped ; and others still—elongated in form and witha square cutting edge—required, for convenient use,that the upper end should be inserted in a handle.Some of the larger leaf-shaped implements are so muchelongated that it is difficult satisfactorily to determinewhether they were intended as spear-heads

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