ARROWPOINTS, SPEAUHEADS, AND KNIVES. 



CLA8S A. — LOZKNC.K-SItArKD. (Pl.ltO Si?.) 



915 



Fig. 139. 



STEMMED AKROW- 

 POINT OK POKPHY- 

 lUTlC FEl.SITE, LOZ- 

 ENGE-SHAPED. 



La Paz, Lower Cali- 

 fornia. 

 Division III, Class A. 

 4x24ii. 



(at. No. 6U-2ii, U.S.N.M. 



These iuipleineuts are n.siially siiuill. I'liey are the simplest in form 

 and, for tlie most part, rudest in exeeiitioii; yet this is no signification 

 that they were the begiiiuin<;s or that there was an evolution from tliis 

 to the more ehiborate forms. This simplicity and rude- 

 ness may be accounted for in divers ways. The re- 

 fiactory material may have had something to do with 

 it, also the rapidity with which they were reiiuired to 

 be made and the unskillfnlness of the airow maker. 

 They may have been made during his apprenticeship; 

 he, who in his beginning made these sitni)lest and 

 rudest implements may have so acquired the ait as 

 afterwards to make the finest and most delicate. 



These form Class A, the first of the 

 division of stemmed arrowpoints. 

 The existence of a stem implies its 

 insertion in a shaft or handle; there 

 fore there can be little or no doubt 

 that these were intended to be thus 

 used. 



Fig. 130 is one of the largest, as it 

 is one of the best in workmanship, of its class in the 

 U. S. National Museum. It is of porphyritic material, 

 and comes from Lower California, therefore it aUbrds 

 no standard of comparison; for the 

 types of im])!ements in that country 

 ii re different from those in other parts 

 of the United States. It is lozenge- 

 shaped, is so regularly pointed at both 

 ends that it is uncertain which end 

 was point and which was base. 



Fig. 140 comes from Massachusetts, 

 is similar in form, with its sharp point 

 and base, and, curiously enougli, is also of porphyritic 

 material. These shari)-pointed bases of the class are 

 unusual, if not rare, in any part of the United States. 

 The more usual form of lozenge shape is shown in fig. 

 141, which is of quartz, and comes from Charles County, Maryland. 

 The refractory character of this nuitcrial may account largely for the 

 predominance of this simple form and rndo style of arrowpoint. It is 



Fig. 140. 

 STEM.MEID AKEOW- 

 POI.NT OF PORPHY 

 RITIC FEL,SITE, I.OZ- 

 ENQE-SHAPED. 



Edgartown, Dukes 

 County, Mas.«achu- 

 aetta. 



Division III, Class A. 

 21x14x1. 



Cat. No. Hl(l3, f.S.N.M. 



FiK. HI. 



.STEMMED ARROW- 

 POINT OK WHITE 

 liUARTZ, LOZENGE- 

 SHAPED. 



Division 111, Class A. 

 lii X i X ,"8- 



Cal. Ni>. 5897, I'.S.N.M. 



