Unworked shells, lashed to rude handles, served all the purposes as well as if wrought out in the most fanciful manner.
In their unworked state, for their beauty alone, they are treasured by peoples in all grades of culture, from the savage up through the barbarian stages to the most civilized state.
Their archæology is still largely an unworked mine.
The poll is of the natural unworked stone and judging from the drawing furnished by Mr. Ridout, was broken off.
Unworked pebbles, chosen for their special adaptation in shape, and others grooved or perforated were used in some parts of the interior of British Columbia for sinkers which were not enclosed in netting.
Unworked pebbles attached to lines have been seen in use among the Thompson River Indians by Mr. Teit who sent a specimen of one to the Museum.
In the Nez Perce region[219] to the east unworked river boulders sewed in skin, were used for the heads of war clubs which were sometimes also used in killing game.
In the Nez Perce region to the east, war clubs with heads made of unworked river boulders, according to Spinden,[65] were sometimes used in killing game and such may have been the case in this region.
At the same time unworked specimens were found and collected both from the cave and from the midden which occupies the bay shore just east of the cave.
Palmer collected sample specimens of unworked shell from the open midden on the bay to the east of the burial site, as well as unworked shell in association with the burials in the cave (Annual Report, 1888, p.
The study of social types is as yet an unworked field.
There are, one submits, enormous reserves of intellectual force unworked and scarcely touched, even to-day.
All four types occur in rough unworked stone, roofed with huge slabs, but a few examples of the third type are made of well-cut and dressed blocks.
The structures are usually, though not quite invariably, made of large blocks of unworked or slightly worked stone, and they conform to certain definite types.
They consist each of two rows, each of thirteen unworked stones set as close together as possible, in front of which is a row of three stones, each about 4 feet high, not let into the ground.
Any ground taken up for mining and unoccupied and unworked for ten days to be considered as abandoned.
Land was falling in and they bought it up; domains belonging to the State were so unworked as to be falling into the condition of rank jungle and pestilent morass.
The final threats of Tiberius Gracchus were still in the air, and a vast unworked material lay ready to the hand of the aspiring agitator.
Among the numerous unworked claims lying higher up the gulch, beyond and adjoining our proposed location, we found three whose ownership we traced, through a number of transfers apparently designed to hide something, to the Lawrenceburg.
Disintegrated, pitted metate and fragments of 2 other metates; mano fragments; core tools; unworked stone; and unidentifiable fragments of human bone.
Often, the segmented long bones were encountered in conjunction with those features composed of a concentration of large unworked stone and metate fragments.
Unworked Bone and Shell Remains Like the Tank Site, both these elements were rare, especially shell, which is known only through two unidentifiable fragments.
To this point it is difficult to explain large lithic concentrations consisting of unworked stone, broken metates and manos, core tools, and occasional sections of human long bones.
Democracy, in fact, has remained considerably, hitherto, an unworked theory of society, even in communities which have supposed themselves to be democratically constituted.
It has a trade in mules, but its principal traffic consists in oxen for the travelling waggons, and in the waggons themselves; there are also some unworked silver mines in its neighbourhood.
It is chiefly noted for feeding large herds of cattle, and contains many unworked mines.
The immigrants Mexico really wants are Europeans, and their valleys and forests are better left unworked than stuffed with the yellow race.
The mud had been washed out by tropical rains, so that now the foundations present the appearance of rough heaps of unworked stone.
Near the middle doorway a rough unworked slab of stone was lying, which had probably served as a lintel.
We found three or four chipped stone lance-heads, a good deal of unworked flint, but only two obsidian flakes.
With the base very large in ratio to the point or piercer; sometimes the entire implement is worked smooth or thin, again it is the natural fragment or chip of stone entirely unworked except a point flaked on one part or edge.
On the other hand, Cheever[129] says the Indians of California usually carry a pouch of treasures, consisting of unfinished arrowheads or unworked stones, to be slowly wrought out when they are industriously inclined.
In the same year, and also two years later, another tilery was unworked for lack of labour.
If a claim layunworked for four weeks, the lead-reeve caused proclamation to be made, and if the old partners did not turn up within fourteen days, it was forfeited.
It is a country of ancient silver-mines, unworked for centuries.
It should be always remembered that the "Hele Stone" is an unworked stone, which stands without the circle, and does not form a symmetrical integer in the structure.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "unworked" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
