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Not A Lost Art

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Parent Issue
Day
30
Month
August
Year
1893
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

ArchaBoIog'ists and antiquariana in their writings frequently refer to the manufacture of flint arrow-heads, etc., as "a lost art;" that is a great mistake. The art is probably lost to the Indiana because they have no use for it. The stone implements have given place to those of iron and stoel, and the rille and revolver have supplanted the flint ax and arrovv-head. The art of making them is not lost, however. There are many collectors of relies of the aborigines who have studied the art of working in flint and have lu'come adepts. In Chattanooga a gentleman has beeome so profieient i;i the ar J that he has not only manufactured magnificent specimens of arrow-heads from flint, but also from the far more brittle obsidian, and even from ordinary g-lass

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Subjects
Old News
Ann Arbor Courier