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example, In the Glenn Canyon sites excavated "by the Museum of
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Northern Arizona and the University of Utah, irregular splinter-
bone awls were the rule (Gunnerson 1959s 28, 78-81? Lister 1959s
104-05).
He-used Splinters of Split-bone Awls
Twenty-six awls were made from the broken and re-used
fragments of the tips or shafts of split-bone awls (Fig. ar
j* s h-k9 n-n) • These intergrade in size and shape from tiny
needle-like fragments to large, nearly complete split-bone awl
•tips (length: 2.5-16.0 cm., widths 5-15a«)« Most fragments
are well smoothed, probably in prior use as split awls,' but all
now have broken and Jagged edges, although some care has been
taken to smooth these rough areas. One small, sharply beveled,
flat section is covered with an incised decoration of cross-
hatched diagonal lines, meeting in v*s. These fragments are
probably made from antelope metapodials, although one may be a
long bone fragment.
Provenience. Hooms 7h, 9» 28, 30 (2), 35c, 45b, 51a,
55t>» 56a, 63 (2), 66, 73 (2)* Trash.
Splinter-bone Awls and Bodkins
Sixteen tools {12 complete, 4 head fragments) were
fashioned from small splinters of long bone, and are divided
into three categories: awls, pins or bodkins, and small