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CRAFTS, DRESS, AND DAILY LIFE
swords to form a cutting edge. The flaking-implement was a pointed stick with a cross-piece at one end; the
Fig. 19.—Stone and obsidian implements.
| 1, 2. | Obsidian scrapers. |
| 3-5. | "flakes. |
| 6, 7. | ""perhaps for inlay. |
| 8. | Chert knife-blade. |
| 9. | Obsidian core, from which flakes have been struck. |
| (British Museum} | |
artisan rested the point on a suitable spot on the obsidian block, which he held between his feet, and applied the necessary pressure by leaning his chest against the cross-piece. The nature of the long thin flakes
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