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Projectile pointOne stemmed red chert point. J. Burgett 5/06/96
Bone, mammal, deer. Ulna awl, tip broken. Polished. Original catalogue description: "Deer ulna (epiph. present) Many scratches and evidence of wear polish. Entire tip end missing."
Thin tan chert flake with bilateral unifacial retouch.
Fragmented pebble with a rounded, a flatened, and a fragmented edge. The rounded edge has bifacial flaking.
Cobble chopper, dark brown on one side, lighter brown on the other side. Samll flake taken off smooth edge. Battered marks also along smooth side, scratch marks on flat surface.
Black.
Barbed. White and gray mottled/striped.
Thin and flat, possibly a retouched point.
Stone skin dresser or scraper.* Fide donor GTE: Stone skin dresser. Skin scrapers are found in great abundance about old camps and former living places. They are of various sizes and material. They were of the chipped basalt used for arrow and spear blades; chipped to convenient shape, or of sections of quartzite pebbles split along one face and chipped as required. Some of these were used as hand implements for scraping or softening the skin of the animals of the country, for articles of clothing, while others likewise used were set in the split end of short wood handles and lashed securely by means of hide, root or sinew. They are still used. *Information is from the original accession ledger.
Oval shape that is rhomboida in cross section. Flake scars at edge of each face indicates battering.