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blunt ends (cf. Niblack, 1890, pi. xxvii, fig. 126), used for practicing 

 or for stunning birds, we found no examples of these in wood or in 

 bone. A variety of bone forms were made by the Tlingit (Niblack, 

 1890, fig. 126, a-c). 



WOODEN FRAGMENTS 



From House 9 in Old Town III there are fragments of wooden rods, 

 1 and 0.8 cm. in diameter, (15) and (6.3) cm. long, which may be 

 pieces of arrowshafts. 



In the same house was a broken wooden object (fig. 16, b), now (21) 

 cm, long, 2 cm. wide, and 1.2 cm. thick. Lateral notches near the 

 unbroken end suggest that it ma}^ have been a poorly made toy bow. 

 The constriction at the broken end would, in this case, represent the 

 grip in the center of the bow, and the complete specimen would have 

 been about 50 cm. long. 



ARROWHEADS 



About fifty-odd specimens were probably arrowheads. Of these, 

 5 were of copper, 1 of iron, 10 or 11 of slate, 23 of barbed bone, 3 of 

 barbed wood, and about 12 of unbarbed bone. Identification of 

 some is uncertain, since they may have been points for light lances 

 or have served other purposes. In addition, there are other amorphous 

 bone points which may have been arrowheads. The three slender 

 slate points and the barbed slate point (pp. 127, 129 f.), classed as heads 

 for lances, may have been for arrows. One of our informants 

 described chipped stone arrowheads with serrated or finely barbed 

 edges; we found nothing of this kind. 



SLATE ARROWHEADS 



Three broken slate blades (fig. 14, e, g), with tangs but without 

 barbs, were probably arrowheads, to judge by their size. The most 

 complete specimen, represented by fragments from Old Town I 

 (fig. 14, g), is 1.5 cm. wide and 0.2 cm. thick, and was originally about 

 6.5 cm. long. It has a faceted point and sloping shoulders. From 

 Old Town III is a fragment of a presumably similar blade, and 

 a poorly made specimen (fig. 14, e) with a tang, now broken off. 

 Three bone arrowheads of the same shape (pi. 15, u~w) are from Old 

 To\\Ti I and II (see p. 146). 



More numerous were small, rather slender leaf-shaped slate points, 

 without tangs or barbs, which could have served as blades for arrows 

 or harpoons (fig. 14, d). There are 7 (or 8) of these, ranging in 

 length from 2.8 to 5.6 cm., in width from 1.1 to 1.5 cm., and in 

 thickness from 0.2 to 0.3 cm. Some are hardly more than slate 

 splinters which have been ground on the edges to produce a sharp 



