The Cliff dwellers of the Mesa Verde, southwestern Colorado : their pottery and implements (1893)
Nordenskiöld, Gustaf, 1868-1895, Morgan, Derec Llwyd · Stockholm ; Chicago : Norstedt · leaf 163
oblong shape and flat, tapering towards the end held in the hand, and broader at the other end, which was ground to a fairly sharp edge. The material is usually silicious slate, which is often very brittle, and thus hardly adapted to the manipulation of any hard substance. They were probably… … Knives of different types are shown in PI. XXXVI: 3, 7 and XXXVII: 1, 8, 10. The material is hard quartzite or flint, and the knives were thus quite suitable for carpentry or other work in which durable implements w'ere necessary. My collection contains a knife with a small lump of pitch still…
Indians of North America
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