22 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 



an extreme form of this, made of common flint, one and three quarters 

 inches long. It is remarkable for its obtuse barbs. This was found 

 on Onondaga lake. Fig. 16 represents the typical form, with gentler 

 curves and sharper angles. It is a large specimen from Ithaca, of 

 dark flint, and two and one quarter inches long. Many differ hardly 

 at all from this except in size. Fig. 17 is a slender form from Brew- 

 erton, of common flint, two inches long. They are rarely as slender 

 as this, but many intermediate varieties occur, none of which have 

 slender barbs. Good examples seem almost peculiar to New York. 



Notchless pentagonal arrows are moderately distributed, and occur 

 in several materials. Fig. 18 is one of common flint, from the town 

 of Van Buren, and has angles somewhat rounded. It is quite flat, 

 and one and three quarters inches long. They are usually quite as 

 broad as this, though slender forms occur. A ruder and more mas- 

 sive one, of the same size and outline, comes from Baldwinsville. 

 It is made of a piece of common hornstone, which unites the light 

 clay color and the dark drab tint. They may be either arrows or 

 knives. \ 



The name of bunt has been adopted for a class of stemmed stone 

 arrow-heads, with broadly rounded or obtusely pointed ends. The 

 term was first used in Missouri, and while Mr A. E. Douglass, of 

 New York city, has 753 Missouri specimens in his collection, he 

 reports none from this state. They are frequent farther south and 

 southwest, and seem here most abundant on the Seneca river. In 

 outline they often have the scraper forms, and are sometimes con- 

 founded with them, but the class will hold good. To this day the 

 Onondagas use blunt headed arrows made entirely of wood, as they 

 probably always did. Sometimes those of stone seem to have been 

 merely broken arrows, long ago recut for use, as in fig. 19, from 

 Seneca river. Of course this might have been used for digging pur- 

 poses, like longer ones of this form, but it seems too short for this. 

 In this specimen there is no perceptible difference in the flaking, as 

 though it had a secondary use. It is one and one half inches long. 

 Fig. 20 shows a longer and straighter form, made of light grey flint. 

 This is quite thick, and about one and three quarters inches long. 

 P"ig. 21 is a typical form, of which there are many examples. It is 



