Title: Bulletin
Identifier: bulletin6011919smit (find matches)
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology
Subjects: Ethnology
Publisher: Washington : G. P. O.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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HOLMES 1 ABORIGINAL AMERICAN ANTIQUITIES PART I 311 Major Powell found the Pahvant tribe of the Wasatch Mountains making stone arrowheads and knives by the proc- (Pahvant Arrow ^^^^^^ ^^^ fracturing, j^ecking, and grinding; the Makers) «-â â ' i op c^ 7 Uintahs employed chipping and grinding, and in the Major's wordsâ At other times, again and aaain. for years, I saw tlie Pasu Indians manu- facture stone implements in the Valley of San Rafael, a (Pagu Arrow tributary of the Colorado flowing from the eastern slope of *^'^^'"*^^ the Wasatch IMatoau. Those people made their implements by chipping. A mile above the niDutli of llie river, in a eottonwood grove, there is a village site which has been occupied intermittently for many years
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Fig. 177. Free-hand pressure chipping of the Klamath Indians. (Schumacher.) and probably for many centuries. In the cretaceous bluffs near by great quantities of chert are found, and not far away quantities of moss-agate. From these materials the Indians made their implements l)y chipping, and near the village site the flakes, rejects, and accidents may be found in great quantities, measured by wagonloads.^ AVe are indebted to Schumacher for a most lucid account of this , , . iirocess as i^racticed among the Klamath Indians of Schumacher s Ac- i i &> count California (fig. 177). After describing the manner of breaking up the stone by the aid of heat, and the selection of suitable fragments, he states thatâ 1 Op. cit, pp. 2-3.

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