922 



REPORT OP NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1897. 



STEMMED A K R O \V - 



POINT, SHOUUIEHKD 



HUT NOT BARItEI). 



Division III. Class U. 



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Cat.No.i^ai-J, U.S.N.M. 



edges and points are tlie same as in other specimens. They are shoul- 

 dered, but not barbed, and the stem at its base is the same as other 

 stems; but instead of its edges being parallel and 

 making a straight or square stem, they are convex 

 and bring the base of the stem to a point. Fig. lOli is 

 a good representfitive of this type. 

 It is symmetrical ; the chipping is not 

 fine, but fairly well done; the base 

 and shoulders are square, the stem 

 contracting by convex edges, and the 

 base pointed. Fig. 1G3 is from Ten- 

 nessee, while the former is from Ken- 

 tucky; but the material of both is 

 the same quality of gray flint, and as 

 the two States are contiguous, we 

 may easily suppose that the American 

 Indian who made these implements 

 was not governed by State lines, and 

 both points may have come from the 

 same quarry. The base is pointed, made so by convex 

 edges. Fig. 1G4 has the same contracted stem, but its 

 edges are straight and not convex 

 and its base is pointed. It comes 

 from a locality far distant from the 

 others, namely, California, showing 

 that these forms were not confined 

 to a given locality. It is well chipped, symmetrically 

 formed, but has the projecting horizontal barb, as was 

 described in fig. 149. It is long and slender, and 

 could have penetrated the flesh of 

 the game or enemy a distance of 2^ 

 inches without interference from 

 these horizontal projections. 



Tlie type of which the author is 

 now to speak has given him more 

 trouble in its classification than any 

 other, and yet he has concluded to 

 classify it as a stemmed arrowpoint, shouldered but 

 not barbed, and has put it in Class B. The blades 

 may be thick or thin, wide or narrow, edges concave, 

 straight, or convex, points sharp or blunt, and so 

 through all the variations. The stem is formed by 

 notches nuido in the edges near the lower end which, 

 with the notch, forms the base of the arrowpoint. 



Fig. 165 is a representative of the type. It is of black flint ; its edges 

 are convex, drawing gradually to a point; the base is straight and 



Fis 164. 



^.TKMMED AllUOW- 

 POINT OF BLACK 

 I'LINT, SiHOULDEUED 

 HUT NOT BARBED. 



San Mi|;iiel Island, 



California. 

 Division III, Class B. 



BJ X I X fa- 



Cit. No. I.i-4il, U.S.N.M. 



Fig. \m. 



STEMMED A K U O \\- 

 POINT, SHOUI.DEHEI 

 BUT NOT BARBED. 



Ohio. 



Division III, Class B 



2i X 1 X k- 



Cnt. No. 16481, U.S.N.M. 



Fig. 166. 



STEMMED ARROW- 

 POINT OF DARK GRAY 

 FLINT, SHOULDERED 

 BUT NOT BARBED. 



Tennessee. 

 Division III, Class B. 



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