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REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1896. 



niaity persons in the Uuited States. A geutleman from Connecticut 

 has sent us a series of small glass arrowheads made by himself. A 

 clergyman from Oregon makes of the mottled jasper-like obsidian 

 beautiful specimens of small arrowheads called jewel points, mounted 

 and sold for use as pins for personal decoration. He makes no pre- 

 tense of secrecy nor that they are other than his own manufacture, 

 and he sells them as specimens of his art. 



Several persons in various parts of the United States, whose names 

 as well as their work arc well known, either make new or alter old or 

 broken arrowheads, and they have been known to sell them as genuine. 

 Thns doctored they belong to the class of arrowheads denominated 

 Division IV, Class I. These have been figured and described by the 



Fig. 79. 



Figs. 79 and 80. 



COBE OF BLACK FLINT AND FLAKE.'^ STRICKEN FROM THE SAME. 



Brandon, England. 



Cat. No. 139182, IT. S.N. M. -'^ iiatur.il size. 



author^ and the public warned against them, which warning seems to 

 have been acted upon by both makers and purchasers, and the industry 

 in that part of the country has practically died out. It is continued in 

 Oregon. 



But this industry is confined to comparatively small arrowheads. 

 The large leaf-shaped implements and similar objects made by chip- 

 ping, which are thin in comparison to their width, made by striking 

 ofi" fine and long Hakes reaching to or beyond the center of the imple- 

 ment, leaving the edges keen and sharp, have never been reproduced. 

 Such implements as are represented in figs. 86 to 95, from the United 

 States, and the large ones in plates 9 and 10, from Europe, have never 

 been made in modern times or by modern workmen. 



'American Naturalist, XXII, p. 555, June, 1888. 



