ARROWPOINTS, SPEARHEADS, AND KNIVES. 941 



Salmon, and "Chisel-shaped," bj' Sir Johu Evans, Ancient Stone 

 Implements, etc., p. 329, fig. 272 from Egypt, and p. 352, tig. 342, from 

 Scotland. 



Two ancient specimens of this type, undonbtedly used as arrows, and 

 coming from France, are shown (tigs. 19<), 197) in the chapter on 

 'Arrow wounds,' as having been tired, the first into a liuman vertebra 

 and the second into a human tibia. While the drawing of these illus- 

 tiations may not represent the tranchant transversal \\ itli exactness, 

 there is no doubt, both from description and examination, that they are 

 of this type. 



CLASS C — PDLISHKU SLATK. (l'late3'J, lig.S. il-13.) 



Specimens of this type are shown on a portion of Plate 39 (figs. 9-13). 

 They are peculiar in that they are found and appear to have been made 

 and used in a restricted locality on the northern Atlantic coast. They 

 are of slate, have been ground or polished on both sides, and made to 

 a smooth edge. 



Knives of slate, with a circular cutting edge, fashioned like a sad- 

 dler's knife, have been found in the same region, where they are said to 

 have been used as fish knives. Both spearheads and knives are iden- 

 tical with Eskimo forms and would suggest possible contact; but it is 

 remarkable, and as yet unexplained, why this material should hav'e 

 been preferred for arrowpoiuts or spearheads. There is no lack of the 

 usual material in this portion of the country. Mount Kineo furnishes 

 a porphyritic felsite (Mount Kineo fiint), which was manufactured into 

 arrowpoints that have been distributed up and down the coast for a 

 long distance. 



CLASS H. — ASYMMETUIC. ( I'kltO 39, ligS. 15-19. ) 



A series of asymmetric arrowpoints is represented in a portion of 

 Plate 39 (figs. 15-19). Their lopsided form shows their i)eculiarity. 

 It is curious that they should have beeu made in a. way which appar- 



