GROOVED AXES. grooved implements, ranging from the rudely notched picks of the steatiteminers, through more or less perfect axe-like forms, to little hatchets or toma-hawks. These are mostly classed as axes, but from many years study of theruder forms the writer cannot consider them either rejects… … TOMAHAWKS. but believes many of them were used as earth picks and hoes in cultivatingmaize. The agricultural tools are more rudely made than celts, often merelycoarselv flaked into shape. Showing no signs of hammer pecking, their only THE AMERICAN AliVHAEOLOGIST. 179 polish is that of use, and this…
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