ARROWPOINTS, SPEARHEADS, AND KNIVl.S. 1)73 



of Ilibriteu Momitaiu, _ miles east of Lenoir, were also found by Dr. Spainlioiir; 5.^ 

 by L'l inches by 4 iueh.' 



Alexander County. — Cache of 96 small loaf-8hai)ed (Division I, Class B) rhyolite 

 implements. Average size 2 by 1^ bj' finches. J.D.Stephenson (Cat. No. GlOoO, 

 U.S.N.M.). "This deposit [cache] was found buried in the soil against a large rock 

 near the Catawba River in the southeastern section of Alexander Conntj'. I know of 

 no locality nearer than 70 miles from which the material of which they are made can 

 be obtained.'" 



SOUTH CAROLINA. 



Aiken Counti/. — Dr. Roland Steiner, of Grovetown, Georgia, reports, April 27, 1895, 

 that " I send a cache of rhyolite or schist arrowpoints, 65 in number, triangular and 

 rudely stemmed, found iu North Augusta on the South Carolina side of the Savannah 

 River, opposite Augusta, Georgia." These were received in due course by the U. S. 

 National Museum, and are catalogued as No. 170768. 



GEORGIA. 



Col. Charles C. Jones, jr., makes a somewhat elaborate description of the jjrimi- 

 tive manufactures of spear and arrow heads. He (juotes at length from Catlin the 

 methods observed by him and reported in his "Last Rambles amongst the Indians." - 



The McGlashan collection (Cat. Nos. 131966-132250, l\S.N.M.) contains 20,000 

 specimens of arrowpoints or spearheads, all gathered by a single person from a single 

 locality, and largely of one material. They belong to Division III, stemmed, some- 

 times shouldered and barbed. These were not reported as en cache, but it is probable 

 many of them were. 



FLORIDA. 



Brevard County. — Cache of 12 or 13 pendant ornaments, or "plummets, pendants, 

 or charms," in a mound near Melbourne, called Turkey Creek mound, reported by 

 Mr. Clarence B. Moore in "Certain aboriginal mounds of the coast of South Caro- 

 lina.'" ' 



Hernando County. — Cache of 24 implements, stemmed, shouldered, but not barbed 

 (Division III, Class B), of white tlint (chalcedony), found 2 feet below the surface 

 at Brooksville, Hernando County, Florida, by J. J. Bell. (Cat. No. 170497, U.S.N.M., 



J'olusia County. — Cache of ceremonial implements (banner stones?), found in a 

 mound near Tomoka Creek. ^ 



ALABAMA. 



Blount County. — Cache of 17 chipped implements.'' 



KENTUCKY. 



Boyd County. — Cache of 165 leaf-shaped (Division I, Class A) gray flint implements 

 from Ashland. Average size 3| by If inches by | of an inch. (E. .J.Taylor, Cat. No. 

 150177, U.S.N.M.) 



Todd County, Dycus farm, 3 miles cast of Trenton. — Cache, number not given.'' 

 Uniuntown, Union County. — Cache of 140 hornstone knives. Two caches, number 

 not given/ 6 miles above Caseyville. 



' What rite or ceremony does this indicate, or what kind of Indian medicine does 

 it represent? T. W. 



- Smithsonian Report, 1879, p. 381. 



■•Philadelphia, 1898, pp. 189-191. 



^ A. E. Douglas, Proceedings American Association for the Advancement of Science, 

 XXI, 1872. 



■• Frank Burns, Smithsonian Report, 1882, p. 826. 



'"James D. Middleton in Cyrus Thomas's Catalogue, p. 99. 



' Gerard Fowke, Thomas's Catalogue. 



