ARROWrOINTS, SPEAUHEADS, AND KNIVES. 1183 



Wisconain; obsidiau, 7J by 2j^ iuchos by ji^ inch, .stcinmod, shouldered, and barbed 

 (Division III, Class C). Mound excavated by .1. W. Emniert, of the Rureau of 

 Ethnology. 



C:it. No. 150196, U.S.N.M., foiinil <u cache in the valley of the Little Missouri River, 

 southwest Arkansas ; chalcedony. There were It implements, all of white Hint or 

 chalcedony, of spearhead form, stonnned, «honlder(>d, and barbed (Di\ision III, 

 Class C). They varied in size from 9A by 3§ inches by ;f inch down to 6} by 2;; inches 

 by A inch. Collection T. W. (Plato fil.) Then^ are in the U. S. National Museum :? 

 otherspecimenssimilar in size, foiiii, and material, reported from Shrevciiiort. Louisi- 

 ana, by Mr. llotchkiss. 



Cat. No. 150195, U.S.N. M., represents a cache of leaf-shaped imjilements from the 

 bank of the Watauga River, Carter County, northwest Tennessee. They wore loaf- 

 shaped in form (Division I, Class ]}), were of ([uartzite, IS in number, their size 

 varying from 9^ by 3,',; inches by three-fourths of an inch to 7|f| by 3,',; inches by f 

 inch. Collection T. W. 



Cat. No. 88112, IT.S.N.M., from Middleton, Wisconsin; fine-grained, sparkling 

 quartzite, light-gray color, spearhead form, stemmed, shouldered, and barbed (Divi- 

 sion III, Class C), S^ by 3i inches by ^ inch. Collection of Bureau of Ethnology. 

 See also tigs. 170, 171, 172, pp. 924-926. 



Cat. No. 88335, U.S.N.M., from Middleton, Wisc(msin, of fiiuvgraiued quartzite. dark 

 color, nearly black, spearhead form, stemmed, shouldered, and l)arbed (Division III, 

 Class 0), 8 J by 2J inches by | inch. Collection of Bureau of Ethmdogy. 



Cat. No. 150179, U.S.N.M., from Ashland, Kentucky, of brown chert, spearliead 

 form, stemmed and shouldered but not barbed (Division III, (Ilass B), 81 by 2|^ 

 inches by i; inch. Obtained from E. .1. Taylor. 



Cat. No. 88105, U.S.N.M., from Wisconsin, of brown lustrous i)yromachic. Hint, 

 spearhead form, sti'uimed and shouldered, not barbed (Division III, Class B),6Jby 

 2|'„ inches by g inch. Collection of Bureau of Ethnology. 



Reference is made to the 95 implements in the cache reported by Mr. Edward 

 Ingram from Chester County, I'eunsylvania, and tigured in Plate 59; also to sundry 

 large specimens described and figured in other parts of this paper. 



Dr. Abbott,' speaking of these large spearheads and referring to 

 Schoolcraft, makes mention of an Indian chief presenting to him one 7 

 inches long and declaring it to be an implement belonging to his ances- 

 stors, and says : 



It is not a little strange that the early writers, who refer to the Indians before 

 they had wholly discarded stone implements, or very soon alterwards, s'hould so 

 generally have overlooked this form, while they frequently mention their axes and 

 arrowpomts. Neither Holm nor Kaliu refer to tln^ large spearheads as weapons of 

 the Delaware Indians, or refer to the use of the spear or lance, in describing their 

 methods of warfare; yet the number of these objects found is of itself sufficient to 

 indicate that at one time they w^ere in very common use. Is it probable that they 

 had been discarded in great measure at some remote period"and were veritable relics 

 of a distant past when the European settlers first reached our shores? The absence 

 of direct reference to these characteristic implements seems indicative of this. 



This raises an exceedingly interesting qnestion. Whatever may have 

 been the purpose, and when or by whomsoever made, may they not 

 have been themselves prehistoric to the aborigines at the time of the 

 discovery of the continent? Are they to be classed with the so-called 

 ceremonial objects, banner-stones, l)ird and boat shaped articles, and 

 with tubes, plummets, sinkers, or charms, not only the uses or purposes 



Primitive Industry, p. 248. 



