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History of Westchester County, New York, Vol. I

Scharf, J. Thomas, ed. History of Westchester County, New York, including Morrisania, Kings Bridge, and West Farms, which have been annexed to New York City, Vol. I. Philadelphia: L.E. Preston & Co., 1886. 251 words

The cutting tools were leaf-shaped implements made of flint or jasper, finely chipped to an edge, which combined in its cutting the principles of the saw and the knife. There were also flakes of obsidian that had sharp cutting edges. Skinning tools, or celts, were wedge-shaped implements made of many kinds of stone, worked to a fine edge at one end, and generally polished. Perforators were delicately wrought of flint or jasper. Scrapers, were small implements of flint used in -dressing skins. Arrow and spearheads form the best known

class of Indian implements, and have been found here in great numbers. They were made of flint, jasper, chert, hornstone, quartz and a variety of other stones. The spear-heads were from two to eight and

ten inches in length, while the arrow-points were smaller and lighter, and many specimens of each were beautifully wrought. Some were worked by blows and some by dropping water upon the heated stone. Occasionally throughout the county quantities of flint chips are found on some Indian village site, where the ancient arrowmaker had his workshop. Mauls and hammer-stones were made of several varieties of tough stones. The former were grooved for hafting, and the latter were

POLISHED FLESHER.

FLESHER WITH HANDLE.

THE INDIANS.

circular or elliptical, two and a half inches in diameter, or three in greatest length, and an inch in thickness, with slight depressions worked at the middle of the sides for the thumb and finger. Thev usually show

GROOVED HAMMER, With castle.

POLISHED AXE.