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��implements, selling them to, or exchanging them with, their neighbors for wampum or peltry. AA^ien the Indian desired an arrow- head, he could bu}' one of the 'arrow-maker " or make one himself The common method was to take a chipping implement, generally made of the pointed rods of a deer horn, from eight to sixteen inches in length, or of slender, short pieces of the same material, bound with

��sinews to wooden sticks resembling arrow shafts. The "arrow-maker" held in his left hand the flake of flint or obsidian on which he intended to operate, and. pressing the point of the tool against its edge, detached scale after scale, until the flake assumed the desired form.

Note — Of the cuts vised in this chapter, those on pages 177, 178, 179, 180, 181, 184, 185, 187, 188, and that of the club-headed stores, page 182, are from the collection of plates belonging to the Smith- sonian Institution, Washington, D. C.

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