Fig. 36. (S. 1–3 to 1–6.) Rejects from rhyolite quarried from the mass, in upper row. Rejects from jasper quarried from the mass, in lower row.
“Prehistoric man of this region [the Ozarks] secured his principal supply of flint from boulders and pebbles found in the beds of water-courses as evinced by the character of the material found in hundreds of workshops along the banks of streams. All the more primitive implements are of this boulder and pebble material.
Fig. 37. (S. 1–3 to 1–6.) This figure is a portion of Professor Holmes’s plate, chap. 1 (15th Annual Report, Bureau of Ethnology), which for convenience I have divided. It carries to complete form the specimens shown in Fig. 36. Numbers 7, 8, and 9 are cache forms worked down from quartzite boulders; 9, 10, and 11 are from quartz pebbles. It will be observed that these six specimens could be used as knives, or when notched or barbed they were available as projectile points.
“Later the rich deposits of cream white chert located in what is now Ottawa County, Oklahoma, were discovered, yet this, I am sure, after a close study of the two flint quarries, must have been in comparatively recent times, for only a small per cent of implements made of the quarry chert are found in the hundreds of village-sites and workshops of this region, and all these, making due allowance for texture and location, look new compared with the deeply patina-covered and frequently decomposed surfaces of the pebble flint implement.”
Fig. 38. (S. 1–3 to 1–6.) Continuation of Professor Holmes’s plate (Fig. 36). First and second rows, g, h, and i, and g, h, are rhyolite and jasper objects of quarry material. These represent first the blades and forms more convenient for exchange, and in the series j to q the completed projectile points.
Figs. 39 and 40 illustrate the process of manufacture. Fig. 39 shows native quartzite boulders which have been reduced from a, to forms e and f. These are not implements, and while Professor Holmes says they were not transported, yet I am of the opinion that letters e, f, g, and h, represent types which were in such form as would admit of transportation. That is, they represent stone in such form as to be of value for barter or exchange. If these specimens show flaws, as might letters a, b, and c, then they are properly rejects, or if they have hard protuberances which resisted the skill of the Indian, then they are rejects.
Readers should compare Figs. 39 and 40 with Figs. 31 and 36. A difference is observed between the pebbles and boulders shown in Figs. 39 and 24, and the quarry material shown in Figs. 31 and 36.
