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so-called type of these relics, but no one pattern seems to vary more 

 than the one we have termed lozenge-shape. We notice, however, 

 that, as a class, they are made of the harder minerals, and are small ; they 

 have no abundant representatives rudely- chipped in slate and other more 

 easily-worked minerals. This pattern is not as abutidantly represented 

 throughout the State as the true leaf-shaped type, and it has occurred 

 to us that probably very many of our lozenge-shai)ed specimens were 

 blocked out for leaf-shaped ones, but being found too brittle, or badly 

 broken at the start, they were finished as angular at the base instead of 

 possessing that beautifully-curved base which makes the true leaf-shaped 

 pattern so attractive to collectors. 



Figure 98 is a rare form of arrow-point as far as our experience goes 

 in collecting them in New Jersey. It is a well-chipped jasper specimen 

 of five instead of three angles. It is a shape apparently well adapted 

 to its purpose, but still possesses no advantage over the plain triangle 

 and its variations that we have been describing. There is but one other 

 specimen in our cabinet of this shape. 



Figure 99 represents a second example of qnintangular arrow-head. 

 It is chipped from green jasper, is smoothly worked, and evenly beveled 

 from the middle to the edges. The sides are all sharply chipped, and 

 the point has been acute. This form is not at all common, although we 

 have met with more examples of it than of the preceding shorter and 

 broader form. The narrow base is very sharp, and was probably 

 inserted into a slit at the end of the shaft, and held by wrapping with 

 sinew. This would secure it a firm hold, and, being so slender and sharp, 

 it would penetrate deeply, if discharged with ordinary force. 



Figure 100 is an average specimen of the white-quartz arrow-points of 

 the leaf-pattern. They are very common, both of quartz and slate, but 

 not as numerous as those of jasper, which latter mineral usually api)ears 

 in the shape of stemmed or plain triangular arrow-points. There 

 appears to be no advantage in the leaf- shaped pattern, and yet it was 

 chosen by the arrow-maker very frequently. We have seen some " work- 

 shop sites " where it appeared to be a favorite pattern, just as the " site" 

 in Hunterdon County was characterized by the stemmed arrow-point 

 form. Although, as we have seen, spear- heads were sometimes leaf- 

 shaped, the true arrow-points are not very variable in size, few being 

 larger than figure 100. 



Figure 101. represents a more symmetrical and better-finished speci- 

 men of leaf-shaped arrow point than the preceding. It is decidedly the 

 best-finished and most acutely-pointed specimen of arrow-head we have 

 as yet met with. There is not a single flaw or fault in the specimen 

 anywhere. 



Figure 102 represents a third form of the leaf-shaped pattern, varying 

 from the two preceding it in being shorter and broader. It resembles 

 figure 101 pushed together; or, reversing the simile, 101 is 102 drau-ii out. 



