ARROWPOINTP, SPEARHEADS, AND KNIVES. 



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ill their locality. These formed part of a cache of 201 specimens found 

 in 1872 by S. W. IJriggs in Sullivan Township, Ashland County, about 

 18 inches beneath the surface, deposited in a kej?-like vessel of the 

 bark of the red elm, 10 or 12 inches in diameter and 13 inches in lieio-ht. 

 The speciaiens average in size from 4 inches long, 2 to 2f inches Mude, 

 and three-eighths of an inch thick. 



Fig-. 107 is a beautiful specimen, as delicate as though it had been 

 intended for use in a lady's dressing case. It is but one-eighth of an 

 inch thick. It is of dark-gray lustrous flint, with a patina similar to 



that on the Ohelh-en implements from the gravels of the 



rivers Somme and Onse in Europe. 



The late I'aul Schnniaclier foniid such loaf-shaped poiuts in 



soutlu'iii California <?raves under 

 circumstances which remove all 

 doubts as to their haviua; been the 





Fig. 104. 



LEAF-SHAPED IMPLE- 

 MENT OF PALE GKAY 

 JASPERY FLINT, 

 WITH CONVEX BASE. 



Division I, Class B. 

 5 X 1| X y^g. 



Cat. No. 4'.>957, U.S.N. M. 



Fig. 105. 



LEAF -SHAPED IMPLEMENT 

 OF DARK GRAY FLINT, 

 WITH CONVEX BASE. 



Division I, Class B. 

 4x2Jxi. 



Cat. No. 15257, U.S.N. M. 



Fig. 106. 



LEAF - SHAPED IMPLEMENT OF 

 DARK GRAY FLINT, WITH CON- 

 VEX BASE. 



Division I, Class B. 

 3 X 2| x j%. 



Cat. No. 15258, II.S.N.M. 



armatures of arrows. He saw, moreover, among the Indians of Oregon, arrows 

 tipped with leaf-shaped flint points. (Ran.) 



Fig. 108, from Santa Barbara County, California, is a peculiar, 

 long, thin, narrow blade, with a sharp point, and, interesting to 

 remark, its base shows traces of asphaltum or bitumen, by which 

 its shaft or handle was attached. This demonstrates the mode of 

 attachment, bnt does not aid in the solution whether it was intended 

 for use as a knife or an arrow ; that, the shaft or handle alone could 

 determine. 



Fig. 100, knife or arrowpoint, is even longer and thinner than the 

 former (fig. 108). 



Fig. 110 is of the same general type and from the same general local- 

 ity. The patina is apparent. Fig. Ill has the same general appear- 

 ance as fig. 107, but is broader and more oval. Its edges near the point 

 are made concave, so that the point is more delicate and pronounced. 



