918 



REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1897. 



right angles to the stem, and so give it almost a triangular appeai'- 

 ance. The edges are convex and symmetrical, and the i)oint on the 



median line. They are from 3 to 

 5 inches long, and inserted in 

 a propel- si i aft would make a good 

 spear or hiiice, which in the hands 

 of a strong and active man would 

 bea most ettective weapon. Many 

 of the implements, all tliose of 

 Class 0, seem to have been shoul- 

 dered with the idea of making a 

 barbed Aveapon, but the first in- 

 tention was to make a stemmed 

 weapon. 



Fig. 148 is impure flint border- 

 ing on chert or hornstone. The 

 implement is rude and thick, the 

 edges are rough and untrimmed, 

 and theflakes have been large and 

 coarse. Whatever of this maj" be 

 charged against the material, it is certain that it might have been better 



Fij;-. 147. 

 STEMMKI) AlM.OWI'dlN roF 

 GRAY Fl.lNl', SHOUL-, 

 I>KRED ni'T Nl >T BA KHED. 



Kingston, Wnshiiigton 



County, lllioilc Island. 



Division III, Class B. 



:i3 X 2 X J. 



Vm -N(i. isds:), IT. S.N. M. 



Fis. 148. 



.STEM-MED ARUOWrOINT. 



SHOULDEUKI) liUT NUT 

 llAIJIiEI). 



Grovejiort, F r a ii k 11 ii 



County, Oliio. 



Division III, Class B. 



34x2xi. 



C:it. No. -i;;k, u.s.n.m. 



skill, and, there- 

 pleted specimen, 

 extremely rough 

 may be good, 

 the base con- 

 square, are at an 

 far beyond the 



tinished with more time and greater 

 fore, we must consider it as an incom 



Fig, 149 is of hard gray slate. It is 

 in its chipping, although the outline 

 Its stem is straight and parallel, 

 cave, the shoulders, instead of being 

 upward angle, the corners project 

 edges so that they have the ap- 

 pearance of barbs projecting hori- 

 zontally and not perpendicularly. 

 They never could have been intended 

 to serve as barbs and i)reveut the 

 extraction of the weapon from the 

 pierced flesli. The edges beyond 

 the corners or barbs are nearly 

 straight, but slightly convex at 

 the i)oiut. The workmanship is so 

 rude and the material so refractory, 

 that it is with dithculty one can 

 discover the flakes by which it was 

 worked. 



Fig, 150 is of white quartz from 

 Long Island, New York. The mate 

 rial is in abundance, wrought into oval scrapers, and found in the shell- 

 heaps on the eastern end of Long Island. Its stem and base are 



Fig. 149. 



STEMMED ARROWPOINT 

 OF GREENISH - GRAY 

 HARD SLATE, SHOUL- 

 DERED li IT T NOT 

 BARBED. 



Georgia. 



Division III, Class B. 



44 X 2 X it'ij. 



Cat. No. 19.';6.'i, U.S.N. M. 



Fig. 150. 



STEMMED ARROW- 

 POINT, SHOULDERED 

 BUT NOT BARBED. 



Southold. Suffolk 

 County (Long Is- 

 land), New York. 



Division III, Class B. 

 2xlix*. 



Cat. No. 21208, U.S.N.M. 



