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REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1897. 



teiied with hitiuiien or jxuni. 8oiiic of tliese bits of flint have been lost 

 out of the original specimen, but cnougii remain to show its chaiacter 

 and effectiveness as a weapon.' Some of the bits of flint suitable for 

 such use have been found and are displayed in the Museum of the 

 Ko^al Irish Academy.- 



M. de Mortillet presents, i:i " Musce Prehistorique,"' eight illustra- 

 tions of spear and lance heads with two poniards, varying in length. 

 Six are from France, of which three are the Hint of Grand Pressigny. 

 He makes the following remarks as to their differentiation: 



Lanceheads aud iioiiiards of tliut iu Fraucc arc sinootli on one side, the thipping 

 beiug always done on the other. In Scaudiuavia they are chipped on both sides. 

 In France the objects intended for knives have no secondary chipping .it all. The 

 cutting edge is left smooth as it was struck from the core; in other words, it is 

 8im])ly a sharjj-edged Hake. 



In his estimation an object from I-'rance like the Mousterien ])oint 

 (tigs. 3, 4), untouched on one side but wrought to an edge on tl>e other, 

 would l)e a spear or lance head, while a flake like that from Grand 

 Pressigny (Plate 7, tig. 4), sharp but untouched on the edge, would be 

 a knife. His Plate XLII contains illustrations of javelin points, large 

 arrowpoints, of which five are from Francje (four of flint and one of 

 bone), three are from the United States, the others from Kussia and 

 Scandinavia. His Plates XLIII and XLIV contain 41 illustrations of 

 arrowpoints, of nearly every form and style (figs. 365-405). France 

 has 21 representatives, Italy 4, Switzerland and Denmark each 3, 

 Ireland, Portugal, and America each 2, Prussia, Sweden, and Algeria 

 each 1. These are of the usual tyi)es, though some may have ])artic- 

 ular forms peculiar to certain countries. His Plate XLY contains 

 four illustrations of the mode of fastening the arrowpoints to the shaft, 

 three from the lake dwellings of Switzerland, aud one from California; 

 two are of stone and one of bone. 



CLASS K. — I'KIIFOKATOKS. 



An anomaly iu arrowj^oints should not be overlooked. One of the 

 prehistoric implements of America is that which usually has been 

 called the perforator or drill, though sometimes, jocularly, ''hairpin.'' 

 It consists of the bore or pile, which is round or nearly so, pointed as 

 though suitable for drilling or boring, with a stem or base after the fash- 



'Moutelins, Civilization of Sweden in Heathen Times, ]>. 25, fig. 25. 

 2 Sir \V. Wrlde, Catalogue of the Royal Irish Academy, I, p. 10; p. /"il, lig. I(i3, 

 Plate X 1.1. 



