NATURE STUDY. 



PUBLLSHED UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE 



Manchester Institute of Arts and Sciences. 



Vol.. III. August, 1902. No. 3. 



Indian Implements in the Museum of the Man- 

 chester Institute. II. 



BY Wir.LIAM PI. HUSE. 



The spear heads in the Institute collection are fewer than 

 the arrow points. There were fewer to lose and therefore 

 not so many to be found. Spear heads were made in the 

 same wa^' as arrow points and resemble them in shape. The 

 only way to distinguish them is by size and weight. The 

 smaller are undoubtedly arrow heads. When the size was 

 such as to make the points unwieldy on the arrows they 

 were used as spear heads. Sometimes when the length and 

 width of a piece are hardlj' enough to place it among the 

 spear heads, its thickness and weight will thus classify it. 



In the cut there is one piece that is so dull as to make 

 one in doubt as to whether it were not used as a scraper. 

 It was put in with the others, however to show all possible 

 forms in the collection. The specimens shown are fairl}^ 

 representative of the pieces collected by Mr. Harriman 

 whose indefatigabl.e zeal has preserved for Manchester so 

 many priceless relics of the past. 



