[126] Moorehead, l. c., p. 340, fig. 372, fig. 1.
[127] Rau, l. c., p. 91, after P. Schumacher.
B. Utensils of Bone, Horn, and the Teeth of Animals.
Implements of Bone.
Artifacts of animal derivation appear in great numbers and in a great variety of form among the objects recovered in excavating. This diversity in form is of course partly the result of the different kinds of bone used in their manufacture, partly of their varied manipulation, and partly of the uses to which they were put. There are all grades of elaboration from the most common splinter of bone to the tool whose shape is almost entirely different from that of the bone employed. All the objects found, however, may be reduced to the principal types of bone instruments which have been found in the United States under the most varying circumstances. In addition to awls, needles and paper-cutter-like knives of bone, there are instruments of horn used principally for chiseling and instruments of a secondary nature. They were the usual tools used in making clothes,[[128]] in weaving baskets,[[129]] etc., not to mention several subordinate uses to which they were put.
[128] Schoolcraft called them “moccasin-needles.”
[129] The broom-binders of Mark Brandenburg to this day use bone awls, see Ranke, l. c., II, p. 509.
1. Awl-like Tools.
This is a large class containing more than 100 objects having various secondary forms and it is the most conspicuous class of bone instruments. They may be classified as follows: