ARROWPOINTS, SPEARHEADS, AND KNIVES. 



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be remarked as one of a class called perloratois or drills and possibly 

 used as such, but here used as an arrowpoiiit. 



Fig. 199 (tiff. 37— 5553, Army .Medical IMuseuni) is also a prehistoric 

 speciuicn. It is from one of the Indian mounds in the vicinity of Fort 

 Wadsworth, Dakota, excavated by Surg. A. T. Comfort, II. S. A., in 



Fig. 199. 



ANCIEXI' IITMAN VERTEBKA PIKRIKD WITH 

 iHAKTZ .MiROWPOINT. IIKALKD. 



Fig. 200. 



ANCIENT SKULL PIERCED WITH I'EKFOKATOR A ItliOWI'l IINT. 



Illinois. 



]8(!9, and consists of a human lumbar vertebra with a small arrow- 

 point of white quartz incrusted in it. It is covered with a new bony 

 formation, showing that the wounded man survived the injuiy some 

 months at least. 



Fig. 200 (Cat. Nos. G0281, 00282, U.S.N.M.) represents an ancient abo- 

 riginal skull from TTenderson County, Illi- 

 nois, forwarded by M. Tandy. Jt had a 

 hole in the squamosal bone on the left 

 side, in which, when found and received 

 by the Museum, was a stone arrowhead, 

 still another perforator or drill. 



Fig. 201 (Cat. No. 173995, U.S.N.M.) 



represents a human skull from a mound 



in Missouri. The subject liad received a 



serious wound in the supraorbital arch at 



'^y»i ^*^^^^^'^'^^^^*'^ the outside of the left eye. The wound 



J»-^At>,-.,- y^ involved all the bones of the interior arch, 



which was broken down. The wound had 

 entirely healed, the cicatrization was com- 

 plete, and all the wasted or destroyed 

 pieces of bone around the wound had 

 sloughed off and the reparation of the bone been fully effected. Of 

 course the missile with whi(di this wound had been intlicted did not 

 remain in the wound, and it was not found, but from the smallncss of 

 the wound and its jienetration one can only conclude it was made by 

 an arrow])oint. 



Plate iiS represents two i)rehistoric specimens of tlint arrow or spear 



Fig. 201. 



ANCIENT SKULL, ARROW WOUND OVER 

 LEFT EYE ENTIRELY HEALED. 



Missouri. 



