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Ch. 15: Aboriginal Lapidarian Work in North America

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the United States National Museum is a large ornament 6 inches across, highly polished, and bored through the center. The spear-points and hoes from East St. Louis and other parts of Missouri and Illinois, and beautiful sacrificial knives— notably the immense knife, 18 inches in length, in the Blake Collection of the United States National Museum (see Illustra­tion), and the one in the Ethnological Museum at the Trocadero in Paris—show the greatest skill in chipping.
FIG. 19. BANNER-STONE OF FERRUGINOUS QUARTZ.
Many of the aboriginal stone objects found in North Amer­ica and elsewhere are marvels of lapidarian skill in chipping, drilling, grinding, and polishing. Few lapidaries could dupli­cate the arrow-points of obsidian from New Mexico, or those of jasper, agate, agatized wood, and other minerals found along the Willamette River, Oregon. No lapidary could drill a hard stone object truer than some of the banner-stones (see Fig. 19), tubes, and other objects made of quartz, greenstone, and granite that have been found in North Carolina, Georgia, and Tennessee, or make anything more graceful in form
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