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MANUFACTURE OF STONE IMPLEMENTS.
[CHAP. II.
ment of this kind, but in which the piece of horn is mounted in a wooden handle, is shown in Fig. 10, from an original in the same collection from Kotzebue Gulf. The bench on which the arrow-heads
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Fig. 8.—Eskimo Arrow-flaker.12
are made is said to consist of a log of wood, in which a spoon-shaped cavity is cut; over this the flake of chert is placed,
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Fig. 9.—Eskimo Arrow-flaker.12
and then, by pressing the "arrow-flaker" gently along the margin vertically, first on one side and then on the other, as one would
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Fig. 10.—Eskimo Arrow-flaker.12
set a saw, alternate fragments are splintered off until the object thus properly outlined presents the spear or arrow-head form, with two cutting serrated sides.