278 ABORIGINAL REMAINS.—PIERS. 
represented in the collection. Most of them are from the seat 
of the arrow-maker’s operations at Bachmann’s Beach, Lunenburg 
Co. There are fifty complete heads together with about 
thirty-five incomplete ones. These latter have been either frac- 
tured whilst still in the hands of the arrow-maker, or damaged 
by striking some hard object, during their flight. Among the 
arrow-heads obtained at Bachmann’s Beach, are some which were 
broken while in process of being made. The parts have been 
recovered and fitted together. These attest to the difficulty of 
working such fragile materials as were employed by our men of 
the stone age. After toiling at the delicate point before him, the 
swarthy craftsman, by an unlucky slip of his flaking instrument: 
spoiled his work. It was thrown to one side, where, centuries 
afterwards, the pieces were found and fitted together, and the 
complete arrow-head is now lying before us. 
The forms of these implements are various :—Leaf-shaped ; 
convex-sided with truncated base; straight-sided with slight con- 
cave base ; notched at the sides near the base, which is straight, 
concave or convex ; stemmed, expanding, straight, or tapering; 
barbed and stemmed. 
In the Webster collection there is one arrow-head of decidedly 
foreign appearance. It is most beautifully wrought, being bevelled 
along both edges on opposite sides. This corresponds with an 
arrow-head from Texas, now in the Museum. From its ap- 
pearance, I doubt very much if Dr. Webster obtained his speei- 
men in Nova Scotia. As that gentleman has left no record of 
the place where it was found the question must remain unde- 
cided.* The material of which it is made agrees exactly with 
that of a well finished (notched) spear-head in the same collection, 
Some of the undoubted Nova Scotian specimens are beautiful 
pieces of workmanship. 
Spear-heads.—There are, in the collection, six specimens which 
I have designated spear-heads. The first is a fine example of 
masterly workmanship. Its length is 7.90 inches, its greatest 
thickness .50, and its greatest breadth 2.75 inches. In form, it is 
* Dr. Patterson tells me that he has obtained a portion of a similar head, but of inferior finish, 
from Yarmouth County, N. 8. 
