Indians of Manhattan Island and vicinity - (1921) (14598119188)

Identifier: indiansofmanhatt00skin_0 (find matches)
Title: Indians of Manhattan Island and vicinity /
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Skinner, Alanson, 1886-1925.
Subjects: Manhattan Indians Indians of North America
Publisher: (New York) : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: The Durst Organization



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r hardstone. This form is, however, frequent in the country about the head-waters of the Delaware. In the American Anthropologist, Vol. 9, No. 2, p. 296 et seq.,Mr. C. C. Willoughby has figured and described the celts of the NewEngland region with remarks on the methods of hafting employed.These seem to be two in number, and consist, in the case of the largerforms, of setting the blade through a hole in the end of a club-like handle,the butt or poll projecting on one side and the blade on the other as in onewhich was found in the muck of a pond bottom at Thorndale, DutchessCounty, New York, a region once in the Mahikan territory. Smaller celtswere set into a club-like handle, the butt resting in a hole or socket. Adzes. These seem to be of two kinds, the first and most simplebeing celt-like, but flat on one side, the other side being beveled to anedge on one side. The second form differs in having a groove, which isnot infrequently ridged. Occasionally, adzes with two parallel grooves
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BANNER STONES GORGETS. AND AMULETS 32 AMERICAN MUSEUM GUIDE LEAFLETS occur. They were probably hafted by taking a stick at one end of whichprojected a short arm at right angles with the shaft, laying the flat sideof the blade against this arm and binding it on with sinew, thongs, orwithes. The groove, of course, was of aid in securing the blade to thehandle. Adzes of stone, hafted in this manner, have been obtained onthe North Pacific Coast. The celt adze seems not uncommon, but thegrooved adze is rare, neither form being nearly so abundant as in the NewEngland region. Gouges. The stone gouge is rare, and seems always to be a plain,single-bladed affair without the transverse grooves so frequently seenin New England specimens, and hereabouts is always easily distinguishedfrom the adze. Less than half a dozen specimens have been seen by thewriter from this entire area, although probably quite as much work inwood was done by the New York Coastal Algonkin as by the New Eng-land Indians. P