288 ETHNOLOGY. 



the impetus given to the arrow by the Indian bow, such a point as this 

 would make a tearing wound that would bring down any of our New 

 Jersey inland birds, the turkey-bazzard and wild turkey not excepted. 



Figure G9 represents a fourth and still smaller example of arrow- 

 head, with the central notch at the base. Like the preceding, it is 

 well outlined. Mounted on a slender reed, it also would, if discharged 

 with force, unquestionably bring down a large bird or squirrel. 



Mr. Schoolcraft* says : " Boys were always furnished with small 

 arrow-points, such as were expected to be spent against squirrels, or the 

 lesser quadrupeds and birds. This was the second lesson in learning 

 the art of hunting; the first consisted in using the blunt arrow, or 

 Beeli icnli,] which was fired at a mark." 



A specimen such as figure 08 may be one of the boy-hunter's arrow- 

 jjoints, but there is apparentlj' too much work upon figure 09 to have 

 allowed the mere tyro to risk it at a passing animal. 



Figure 70 represents a beautifully-shaped arrow-point that ap- 

 proaches figure 50 in outline, but has the ends of the slender barbs 

 sharp; the barbs themselves are continuous with the line of the sides, 

 and not outwardly curved as in figure 03. For delicacy of finish and 

 general beauty of outline, this specimen is scarcely to be excelled. As 

 will be noticed in the illustration, the base is broken off; but we are 

 confident it was sufficiently prolonged to enable the very accurately- 

 tiuishcd barbs to be effective. Whatever the skill of the arrow-maker, 

 to produce this specimen was undoubtedly a tedious operation, and the 

 prehistoric hunter equipped with arrows tipped with points such as this 

 hardly wasted them upon small game. 



Figure 71 is a fine example of a triangular- bodied arrow-point, with 

 a long, unnotched stem, and of a pattern not very abundant in New 

 Jersey ; the examples seen are usually less perfect than this, being in 

 outline more like the following illustration, (figure 73.) Figure 71 is of 

 bluish-gray jasper, one inch and five-eighths long, the stem being just 

 one-third of the total length. The specimen is thicker than arrow- 

 points of this pattern usually are ; but the point is thin and still xavy 

 sharp. 



Figure 72 represents a form of slate arrow-heads, very numerous and 

 uniform in size. They are never very well finished except in outline. 

 We recall our once coming across a site of an arrow-maker's hut in 

 Hunterdon County, New Jersey, where the ground was covered with 

 small fragments of a hard, slaty rock, and fragments more or less ap- 

 proaching the perfect arrow-point, all of which were of this pattern. 

 A resident of the neighborhood informed us that in blasting for the 

 road-bed of the Delaware and Belvidere Railroad a large rock proved 

 to have in it a cavity with its entrance below the surface of the ground, 



"Researches, «fec., North American ludiaus, pt. i, p. 77. 

 t Algonquin. 



