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■which was half filled with arrow^-poiuts, "very nearly if not quite the 

 size of figure 72 and of that shape." 



Figure 73 represents a form of small arrow-point, very similar but less 

 accurately finished than figure 71. This we suppose to be one of the 

 "small arrow-points" intrusted to boys learning to shoot, ai) described 

 by Mr. Schoolcraft. They occur in considerable numbers, and seem to 

 be about as much scattered abroad as any of the numerous patterns. 

 Were these small arrow-points used exclusively by boys, tliey should be 

 most abundant about the former sites of villages ; but such localities do 

 not appear to specially abound in them. 



Tigures 74 and 75 are further examples of the abundant form of 

 stemmed arrow-points, without notches at the base. Figure 74 is 

 ■wrought out of a jasper pebble, is well made and accurately beveled from 

 the center or middle line to the edges. During the course of an ordinary 

 day's hunting for relics, this and the following class of specimens will be 

 found the most abundant, except, perhaps, the triangular arrow-point, 

 yet to be described. Specimens of this pattern and size are in a mod- 

 erately good state of preservation, being pretty thick for the length, 

 and fully capable to stand a hard blow against another stone, or the 

 ■weight of a horse's foot. Ordinarily, the extreme point is broken off. 



Figure 75 does not vary materially from tbe preceding. It is a little 

 smaller and made of slate. The point has been chipped so as to be a 

 cutting-edge of about one thirty-second of an inch in extent, and not a 

 needle-like tip as is usual. In looking over a large series of arrow- 

 points, we find very many that have such a rounded point, which might 

 pass for broken-tipped specimens. In the resharpeuing of arrow-heads, 

 we believe the rounded tip was usual instead of a fine point, as when 

 the specimen was first chii)ped out. 



Figure 76 represents a fine example of flint-chipping, which we call 

 an arrow-head, although in so doing we thereby probably contradict 

 I)revious assertions with reference to hunting spears. Figure 70, how- 

 ever, is thin, light, and more like an arrow in appearance than like the 

 ordinary hunting-spears. It certainly is the maximum size of arrow- 

 points, if indeed intended as such. The base and deeply-cut notches 

 approach figures 03 and 07 in general appearance, and the specimen, as 

 a whole, much resembles figure 05, altbougli the sides are here curved, 

 instead of unusually straight, as in that specimen. 



In studying the forms of arrow-heads, we have not been disposed to 

 make any distinction between those of war, and peace, or hunting ar- 

 rows,* but if any arrow-head was specially reserved for use in war, that 

 figured in 7G was most likely one. Buried its full length of two inches 

 and one-half in the side or breast of a man, it would speedily prove fatal. 



Figure 77 represents an ordinary sized and shaped stemmed arrow- 

 point, moderately well chipped from a hornstone fragment, and notice- 

 able particularly for one feature, that of being brought to a semicircu- 



*Anc. Mod. Miss. Valley, p. 212. 

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