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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 edition. Excerpt:... some reference to flint, or kahnhia. A little later Father Bruyas defined the Mohawk gannohouagethon, to scrape a hide, and another word expressed the stretching process. In a rude way they are still, or were recently, in use among some of our western indians, but not in forms like those of old. The Eskimo still use them, inserted in handles, and one specimen here figured is almost exactly like those which they make. Dr Abbott says of New Jersey scrapers,' One feature of the European scrapers is having one side flat or uniform, the result of the breaking away of a large flake, thus giving on one side the smooth surface of a single plane of cleavage. We have all our specimens chipped upon both sides, unless it be those of about the minimum size, which appear absolutely identical with the European specimens.' In New York, however, a large proportion of the larger examples have this single cleavage, while full chipping on both sides is confined to a few. From Sir John Lubbock's illustrations, Dr Abbott also thought European specimens rudely chipped in comparison with American, and a similar comparison would show the high character of those of New York. i As regards their distribution no exact statement can be made. In some form they seem distributed throughout the world, but the proportion in any collection will vary according to the field in which it has been principally made. Mr Douglass has 220 New York scrapers, out of a total of 1061. Of these 636 came from Missouri, and 71 from Arkansas. From the New England states he has none at all. Dr Rau figured them only from Ohio and Texas. In the Wagman Saratoga collection none are mentioned, but such omissions may be due to their frequent lack of beauty. In a show collection they might make a...