Archaic Gleanings

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ARROW-SHAFT SMOOTHERS. The arrow-shaft smoothers1 illustrated on plate III, figure iv, was found a mile and a half east of Nelson, and is in the collection of Miss Burd. It is made from a peculiar kind of gritty sandstone,2 in appearance like unto iron, and said to be found near Hebron or Fairbury. This...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ARROW-SHAFT SMOOTHERS. The arrow-shaft smoothers1 illustrated on plate III, figure iv, was found a mile and a half east of Nelson, and is in the collection of Miss Burd. It is made from a peculiar kind of gritty sandstone,2 in appearance like unto iron, and said to be found near Hebron or Fairbury. This specimen measures 5 inches long, 1J inches wide and 1-inch thick. The under side is rounded off, and the groove made by the smoothing of the ar- rowshafts runs bias on the face of the stone. The specimen has been broken and cemented together. Mr. Imler has a small specimen in hiscollection which measures 3J inches long, 2 inches wide and I of an inch thick, and is made of the same material. The under side is rounded similar to the Burd specimen. The groove is not very deep; in fact, the stone has quite a cavity worn in the face where some tool has been ground or sharpened. Hawley, Stoner, Ritterbush and myself also have broken specimens. 1 Handbook of American Indians, part I, p. 95. 2 E. E. Blackman, state archeologist's report, Proceedings an Collections Nebraska State Historical Society, Vol. xv (1907), pp. 350-352. OF THE UNIVERSITY GROOVED MAULS And SPADE(?) GROOVED STONE MAULS.' Figure i, plate IV, shows the likeness of a grey granite maul found by Mr. Richard Kirk on his place, near where the Burlington and Rock Island railroads intersect each other on Elk creek, about a half mile southeast of the court house. It is 61 inches long, 34 inches wide at greatest width, and 2] inches thick at greatest thickness. The top and blade have pieces chipped out, supposedly from hard usage. The specimen now adorns the collection of Mr. F. 0. Ritter- bush. Figure ii of the same plate is a maul made from a dark green stone (nearly black) banded with white. Th...