A Mohawk Iroquois Village - Exhibitions
Arrowpoints, or other tools used to pierce, cut, or scrape, can be chipped from a piece of chert by carefully tapping its edge with a hammerstone, or pressing against the edge with a punch of wood, bone, or antler. Chert was quarried and used for stone tools and weapons by American Indians in New York State for the past 11,000 years.
