APPENDIX 0.1 



LARGE IMPLEMENTS OF ARROWPOINT OR SPEARHEAD FORM. 



There are certain implements found throughout the United States, 

 more especially the western and southwestern, which, except for 

 their immense size, are identical in form with certain spear and arrow 

 heads. An implement 2 or 3 inches in length will be recognized as an 

 arrowpoint; if 5 or 6 inches in length it might be a javelin, lance, or 

 spear; but when we encounter one, however correct it may be as to 

 form, or fine as to workmanship, which is 10 inches or a foot in length, 

 then what shall we call it and how shall we define its use? The U. S. 

 National Museum possesses many of these specimens. Some of them 

 have been found in cache, some in mounds and burial places, others 

 sporadically, on the surface. Their great size and weight, while it does 

 not absolutely interdict their attachment to a shaft or handle, nor their 

 use as a weapon, render both extremely unlikely, or they might have 

 been used ceremonially. But we are absolutely without other knowl- 

 edge as to their use or purposes than that furnished by the implements 

 themselves and their associations. 



George F. Arvedson, of Carpentersville, Illinois, reported the finding of an imple- 

 ment of white flint or chalcedony of the form of a spearhead, stemmed and shouldered, 

 not bai-bed (Division III, Class B) 15 inches long, 2| inches wide and § inch thick. 



C. D. Williams, of Gainesville, Florida, reports having found in southwestern 

 Georgia an implement of spearhead form (Division III, Class C) stemmed, shouldered, 

 and l)arbed, of gray flint, 14^ by U inches by 1 inch. 



Messrs. M. H. Spillmanand E. B. Sumner, of Fainesville, Lake County, Ohio, report 

 the discovery, while digging in a mound near that town, of an implement of white 

 flint or chalcedony, shouldered, stemmed, and barbed (Division III, Class C) ]2J 

 inches long, 3.V inches wide, and f inch thick. 



The following are representative large-sized spear and arrow heads 

 in the U. S. National Museum r 



One from AVest Derby, Vermont (Cat. No. 8922, U.S.N.M.) lU by 2f inches by f inch, 

 of reddish iron-clay slate, leaf-shaped (Division I, Class B), reported by J. M. Currier 

 and K. Wheeler. 



Cat. No. 8923, U.S.N.M., from West Derby, Vermont, of reddish iron-clay slate, llf 

 by 1{^ inches by t inch, leaf-shaped (Division I, Class B), reported by H. W. Norris 

 and J. M. Currier. 



Cat. No. 98341, U.S.N.M., from a mound at Prairie du Chien, Crawford County, 

 Wisconsin, of chalcedony, 11 by 2^ inches by^ Inch, leaf-sliaped (Division I, Class B). 

 Monnd excavated by J. W. Emmert, of the Bureau of Ethnology. 



Cat. No. 115501, U.S.N.M., from mound in Prairie du Chien, Crawford County, 



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