916 



REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1897. 



Fig. 142. 



STEMMED ARROW 

 POINT, LOZENGE- 

 SHAPED. 



East Windsor, Hart 

 ford County, Con 

 nect icut. 



Division III, Class A 

 IJxixi. 



Cat. No. 6084, U.S.N.M. 



inordinately thick coin])ared witli its width. It is three-fourths of an 

 inch wide and five-sixteenths thick, nearly one-half. The leaf-shaped 

 inii)lenients which have been described were five or six times greater 

 in width than tliickness. 



The lozenge -shaped arrowhead with a rude but 

 pointed stem without shoulders would appear impossi- 

 ble to fasten firmly in an arrow shaft by means of 

 ligatures, which suggests that some kind of gum or 

 adhesive substance was used to make it fast, though 

 the author does not know that any such specimen has 

 been found showing traces of gum. Because of the 

 great size and rudeness of the base 

 of some of these implements, they 

 may have been too large to receive 

 the small arrow shaft and so may 

 have required comparatively large 

 and heavy handles. Thus, despite 

 their small size as a class, they may 

 have served as spears or possibly 

 knives — who knows ? This is purely conjecture, based 

 upon the appearance of the implement itself, and is 

 liable to be overturned by the discovery of any new 

 fact concerning it. 



Fig. 142, still lozenge-shaped, has 

 no shoulder, but has a rudimentary 

 base. The arrow maker has not, as 

 in the former instance, worked the 

 base to a point, but has left it one- 

 fourth of an inch in width. This speci- 

 men is from Connecticut, is of the 

 dark-gray flint common to that State, 

 and is a fair sample of the average size of this class 

 of arrowpoint. 



Fig. 143 is of black flint from New York, of larger 

 size than usual, but carries with it the simplicity of 

 form and rudeness of manufacture mentioned of the 

 others. The stem is still lozenge-shaped, no shoulder, 

 and again the rudimentary base which here is about 

 one half an inch thick. 



Fig. 144 is a specimen from Tennessee which merely repeats the 

 peculiarities of the former si^ecimens. 



Fig. 143. 



STEMMED ARROW- 

 POINT, LOZEN(iE- 

 SHAPED. 



Keesevillc, Essex 



County, New York. 



Division m. Class A. 



3ixli=^xA- 



Cat. No. 32183, U.S.N.M. 



Fig. 144. 

 STEMMED ARROW- 

 POINT OF PALE QRAY 

 FLINT, LOZENGE - 

 SHAPED. 



Divisionin, Class A. 

 2ixlxg. 



Cat. No. 61998, U.S.N.M. 



