ARROWPOINTS, SPEARHEADS, AND KNIVES. 



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Fig. 167. 

 STEMMED AKUOW- 

 I'OINT, SHOri.DEKED 

 BUT NOT HARKED. 



Diviaiou III, Class B. 

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



as wide as the broadest part of the blade. Its base is fi)rmed by two 

 notches made in each edge opposite each other and fonniug, .so far as 

 concerns tlie edge.s, a groove around the implement which may have been 

 utilized for fastening the arrow shaft by a ligature. These notches are 

 about one-fourth of an inch wide and as much deep, and 

 are distant from the base about one fourth ofan inch, so 

 that they have been denominated in some other classi- 

 fication as "notched on the edge near the base." This 

 notching has loft the base its original width and 

 unchanged, as though the notches had not been made 

 nor the implement transformed from a leaf-shaped or 

 possibly triangular arrowpoint into a stemmed one. 



Fig. 1C(J is much smaller than the former, but size 

 does not seem to have aifected this type of arrowpoint 

 more than it has the others. The implement is sym- 

 metrical, edges are convex, and the outline can be 

 traced past the notches to the base, and, l)ut for the notches, it would 

 have been a leaf-shaped implement of Class 1>, pointed at one end and 

 concave at the base. The notches are about one-fourth ofan inch wide 

 and deep, and the distance from the base is about three-eighths of an 

 inch. We will see in the next class how, evidently, some of these 

 stemmed arrowpoints were made from leaf-shaped implements, by the 

 introduction of these notches. In the present case 

 the notches are horizontal and form shoulders but not 

 barbs. In the next class (C) they will be at an up- 

 ward angle toward the center, their shoulders form 

 barbs, and they pass into that class and are not further 

 noticed in this. 



Fig. 1(!7 is of gray Hint from Ohio. It is rather 

 small and has the same horizontal notches, smaller 

 than those noticed before, but the outline of the leaf- 

 shaped implement is more apparent in it than in the 

 oiliers. That it was originally a leaf-shaped imple- 

 ment, transformed by the notches into a stemmed and 

 shouldered arrowpoint, is satisfactorily shown from 

 an inspection of the implement. It has the convex 

 base which was referred to and described under lig. 

 160 as polished or rubbed smooth on its edge. This 

 peculiarity is wonderfully well represented in tlie 

 specimen now under consideration. The edge of the 

 base is blunt and smooth, while the edges and point 

 of the blade are rough and sharp as any ever were. 

 There are some peculiarities appertaining to the implements and objects 

 of prehistoric man which, by reason of their repetition, have become 

 accepted facts, the explanation of which has as yet defied all theories 

 of the most inventive imagination. This is one. 



Fig. 168. 



STEMMED AKROWPOINT 

 OF WHITE JASPEKY 

 FLINT, SHOULDERED 

 BUT NOT BARBED. 



West Bend. Wasliing- 

 ton County, Wiscon- 

 sin. 



Divi.sion III, Claw.s I'.. 



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