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wise found in Scania. * * * The broad head seems to indicate that 

 they have been harpoons rather than arrow-heads. * * * It appears 

 to me certain that PI. x, Fig. 203, has been the stone point of an har- 

 poon. * * * A person who had long resided in Greenland recog- 

 nized it at once as such." Here we find a Xew Jersey, an ancient Scan- 

 dinavian, and a Greenland specimen of the present day identical. 



We have already described in detail and figured a series of such fish- 

 ingspears, or harpoon-points, as are characteristic of aSQW Jersej', and 

 suitable for the river-fishing especially that was and is to be had in our 

 rivers. Figure 79 is not as well adapted to fishing as are those we have 

 figured in Chapter Ylll ; and we have, therefore, considered this specimen 

 an arrow-point for the larger game, its size and weight not being too 

 great to render it suitable as an arrow-head, especially where the dis- 

 tance to be traveled is not great, as when large game was surprised and 

 struck before it was many yards away. 



Figure 80 is a good example of one of the rough jasper arrow-heads 

 that appear to have been hastily blocked out for an emergency, but 

 which probably were meant for large game, as deer, at close quarters, 

 and intended to make a torn rather than a cut wound, which would 

 cause the animal to bleed to death if not killed instantly. The style of 

 rough jasper arrow-head, of this size and smaller, is common. These 

 larger examples approach in some characters the chipped jasper knives, 

 to which we will call attention in another chapter. 



Figure 81 is a pretty white quartz form of the ordinary triangular 

 arrow-point. There is nothing about the base to show how it was 

 secured to the shaft of the arrow. Such quartz specimens are found in 

 almost every nook and corner of the State. They vary considerably in 

 the relative diuieusious of length to breadth. More quartz arrow-points 

 of the stemmed pattern occur, however, than of these plain triangular 

 specimens. White quartz was a favorite mineral, not only for arrow- 

 points, but spear-heads and small hatchets. 



Figure 82 represents about the minimum size of plain equiangle 

 specimens. It is chipped from a flake of dark chocolate-colored jasper, 

 and is very pretty. In many of these smaller specimens, we find the 

 base equally carefully chi})ped as the sides, and the three angles brought 

 to such equally acute points that it is difficult to see which side, if any, 

 was intended for the base. 



Figure 83 is another illustration of a triangular arrow-point, differing 

 from the preceding in that the base is narrower than the sides are 

 long, and is intentionally concave. This specimen is one of the hand- 

 somest we have seen. Chipped from a pale-green jasper fragment, it is 

 in perfect condition, and too pretty and carefully worked, it seems, to 

 have been risked by slight insertion into the split end of an arrow- 

 shaft. 



Figure 84 represents a form of the triangular arrow-point, that is 

 broader than long, and possibly was never sharply pointed. Such an 



