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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
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. 4. Groove encircling three sides of blade, longitudinal groove on flat side and opposite. 5. Groove encircling blade. 6. Ridged groove encircling blade. A seventh type, having a double groove encircling the blade, may occurin this territory, but has never been reported. A specimen from the HudsonRiver region, just north of the area here dwelt upon, is in the Henry Boothcollection in this Museum. While most worked stone axes have been peckedinto shape, a few have been fashioned by chipping, but these seem to be rare. Grooved axes were hafted in various ways. During the summer of 1908,the eastern Cree living in the vicinity of the southern end of Hudson Baytold the writer that their ancestors, who made and used such axes, haftedthem by splitting a stick and setting the blade in it, then binding the handletogether with deer-skin (probably rawhide) above and below the split. Nospecimens of the grooved axe in the original haft seem now to be extant SK INNER INDIANS OF MANHATTAN ISLAND 21
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22 AMERICAN MUSEUM GUIDE LEAFLETS from any locality in the East. From the battered appearance of the butts ofthese axes, it may have been that they were sometimes used in lieu of mauls orhammers. It is possible that they may have been used in war. It is gen-erally supposed that in cutting down trees, making dug out canoes and otherkinds of wood-working, fire was used as an adjunct to the stone axe, theformer being the active agent. The process of burning and charring havinggone on sufficiently, the stone axe was used to remove the burned portion.However, some stone axes seem sharp enough to cut quite well without theaid of fire. Celts (Fig. 12). Ungrooved axes or hatchets, usually called celts, arefrequent throughout this area; but are nowhere as abundant as the groovedaxe, especially near the southern border of the region. The grooved axeseems to have been the typical cutting and chopping tool of the localAlgonkin. The widespread idea that the celt was sometimes used un-hafted as a s

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