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" Consequently his arrowpoints when finished are thin and shapely, while mine, much to his disguest, are thick and clumsy affairs. My work resembles the abrupt Mousterian retouch, while Ishi's is the true Solutrian technique. As to the actual movements... "
Flint Working by Ishi - Page 401
by Nels Christian Nelson - 1916 - 6 pages
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Handbook of Aboriginal American Antiquities, Part 1

William Henry Holmes - America - 1919 - 412 pages
...clumsy affairs. My work resembles the abrupt Mousterian retouch, while Ishi's is the true Solutrian technique. As to the actual movements involved in...in the later and more delicate stage of the work is guided by placing the index finger of the tool BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [BULL. 60 hand against...
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Handbook of Aboriginal American Antiquities: Part 1, Introductory, the ...

William Henry Holmes - America - 1919 - 420 pages
...Solutrian technique. As to the actual movements involved in chipping, these would be rather difliclllt to describe. The pressure exerted, if not too great,...is needed the leverage is thrown back to the elbow ami shoulder. The precision of the movement in the later and more delicate stage of the work is guided...
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Source Book in Anthropology

Alfred Louis Kroeber, Thomas Talbot Waterman - Anthropology - 1924 - 606 pages
...clumsy affairs. My work resembles the abrupt Mousterian retouch, while Ishi's is the true Solutrian technique. As to the actual movements involved in...in the later and more delicate stage of the work is guided by placing the index finger of the tool against the edge of the palm on which the flake lies....
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Ishi the Last Yahi: A Documentary History

Robert F. Heizer, Theodora Kroeber - History - 1979 - 258 pages
...clumsy affairs. My work resembles the abrupt Mousterian retouch, while Ishi's is the true Solutrian technique. As to the actual movements involved in...in the later and more delicate stage of the work is guided by placing the index finger of the tool against the [171] Plate 2. The secondary processchipping....
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