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Title: Guide leaflet
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: American Museum of Natural History Natural history
Publisher: New York : The Museum
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: IMLS / LSTA / METRO

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nives (Fig. 10). None of the early accounts of con-temporary European writers seem to mention the use of spears (other thanbone or antler-headed harpoons) by the Indians hereabouts, and it is prob-able that the larger arrow-point-like forms found were used as knives orcutting tools. They are usually notched or stemmed, rarely triangular, andoccasionally round or oval. They vary in size, but it must be rememberedthat one tool may have had various uses, and that drills, knives andscrapers may often have been combined in one implement. Scrapers (Figs. 10 and 11). Scrapers were probably used in dressingskins, and in sharpening bone implements, woodworking and for variousoilier purposes. These are usually mere flint flakes chipped to an edge onone side. Nevertheless, notched and stemmed forms, requiring some carein their making do occur. Broken arrow points were occasionally chippeddown to serve this purpose. A single serrated scraper has been found. SKINNER, INDIANS OF MANHATTAN ISLAND 17
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15 FiG. 10. KNIVES AND SCRAPERS 18 AMERICAN MUSEUM GUIDE LEAFLETS These are very rare in both the Algonkian and Iroquoian areas of NewEngland and the Middle Atlantic States. One very large stemmed scraper,of a type more common in the far west, also comes from this locality. Drills (Fig. 11). These are usually chipped tools presenting an elon-gated narrow blade and a considerably swollen or expanded base, suitablefor grasping in the hand. In some cases the base was absent and thosewere probably hafted in wood. Specimens whose blades have a squareor rectangular cross section are very rare. The finding of cores left inhalf-drilled objects shows the use of a hollow drill, and it has been suggestedthat a hard hollow reed used with sand and water on a soft stone wouldproduce this effect. To bear out this assertion, it has been reported that ahalf-drilled implement has been found (outside this area on the upperHudson) in which the remains of the reed drill were found in the cavity leftby its

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