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Drill, point, use by Dakota and Ojibway indians. Phillips Coll. Haupt del.)

Drill, from sketch, made from photograph in Phillips Collection.

The Dakotas, as well no doubt as the Ojibway, used the chirt drill to bore the rock in making their pipes. We have found the drill in use among the recent tribes and the chirt points are not an uncommon occurrence in the collections. In the specimen of which we have given a drawing the point of the drill is gone. The remaining fragment is one and three quarter inches long The head is one and one eights inches wide. and one quarter of an inch thicke. The shaft of the drill is six sixteenths wide and four sixteenths thick. having an eliptical section. This specimen is from the collection of Dr. Wm. A. Phillips and was found at Jackson Illinois it is of white chirt and very carefully chipped. In the Phillips collection is also a photograph of a drill mounted and the bar with [?] it is used. It consists of a shaft of wood into a slit in the lower end of which is fitted the drill point, this is not a difficult task as the upper end of the head of the drill is tapered to make it chisel pointed and this can be easily adjusted to the shaft The upper end of the shaft is rounded and fits into a bucket of mud this Bucket is any bit of wood at hand. the drill is operated by the bow which has a cord passing around the shaft of the drill and by running the end back and forward the drilling is accomplished Such a drill as this has not been in use among the indians for many years since the advent of the white man. the file has in a great measure superseeded the old stone drill. now the calumet pipes which formerly were drilled with the bow and drill are now drilled with a file that is sthe end of it. The reasons for this is obvious the file is formed ready to hand and is [?] more durable. the stone drill is difficult to make and easily broken.