United States or South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
The operation would be continued until the flint had assumed the proper shape, and then the "kigleen" was employed to drive and make the edge even. For the horn arrow-heads, deer horns were immersed in hot water, then straightened and shaped with stone knives.
In constructing the flint arrow-heads, two instruments were used, the "natkenn," a small hammer made preferably from the base of the horn of a deer where it enters into the bony portion of the skull, and the "kigleen," a kind of sharpener made from a piece of deer horn, with a small round piece of ivory overlapping and bound to its upper surface.