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triangular arrow-point, with a broad wing-like i^rojection upon one 

 side. It is not an unfinished specimen. The " wing" is finely and 

 evenly chipped, with its edges as sharp as are any other of the edges of 

 the specimen. What object there may have been in such a shaped 

 arrow-point, we cannot imagine. 



Figure 107 represents a very pretty form of arrow-point, with which 

 ■we will conclude this portion of our subject. It is carefully chipped 

 from yellowish-brown jasper, and is noticeable particularly for the ex- 

 aggerated barb, which is considerably larger than the main body of the 

 specimen. An examination of the reverse side of the base of this 

 arrow-point shows that there has never been a second barb, but that the 

 specimen is now as originally chipped. The barb, once beneath the skin 

 of an animal, would be difficult to extract, and would make an ugly 

 wound ; but how such an arrow-head was attached to the shaft is not 

 clear. 



Before concluding this subject of arrow-heads, we would call atten- 

 tion to certain large stones found on known sites of Indian villages, 

 which are called " anvils " for want of a more correct designation. Dr. 

 T. S. Stevens, of Trenton, N. J., to whom we are indebted for many 

 favors, has called our attention to one such " anvil." The stone in 

 question is about twenty inches in height, has an hour-glass contrac- 

 tion at the middle, and has a level circular surface at either end of 

 about nine inches in diameter. Where contracted at the middle, it 

 measures about five or six inches in diameter. Sitting on the ground, 

 and ]>lacing it before us between the legs, we found the present shape of 

 the stone to be admirably adapted as an anvil, or " bench." Thus 

 postured, one could easily imagine himself a prehistoric arrow-maker, 

 resting one surface of a blade of jasper upon the upper face of the an- 

 vil, and striking off the flakes, that a subsequent laborious chipping 

 would transform into such delicate arrow-heads as many we have figured. 

 Whether such an anvil as this was shaped from a globular bowlder or 

 not is a difficult question to decide ; but, judging from the mineralogi- 

 cal character of the implement, we think that it originally bore some 

 resemblance to its present shape, and was afterward chipped to per- 

 fect the uniformity of its hour-glass contraction. I\Ir. Schoolcraft has 

 described the method of arrow-head making without the aid of an an- 

 vil, and it may be that the stone we have described was not used in 

 resting the block upon it when broken in flakes, but as a bench for the 

 later chipping, or in finishing arrow and spear points. 



There is nothing that adds so much to the interest of arrow-heads, 

 and indeed to that of the other stone implements of a country, as the 

 results of their comparison with stone implements of other and distant 

 iwrtions of the globe. Mr. Evans's interesting volume on the stone im- 

 plements of Great Britain gives us an excellent opportunity to make 

 such comparisons with the English specimens, the work being profusely 

 and admirably illustrated. This comparison is made at the conclusion 



