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heads of the Tena and some northern Alaskan Eskimo (de Laguna, 

 1947, pp. 205 f.; 1956, p. 179). The detached conical tang is old 

 among the Eskimo although it was never as popular as the plain 

 conical tang. Both forms occur on Prince William Sound and Kodiak, 

 but not on Kachcmak Bay (de Laguna, 1947, p. 205; 1956, pi. 36; 

 Heizer, 1956, figs. 43 and 44). Lines bordering the row of barbs are 

 typical of points from Kachemak Bay of all periods, and of Kodiak, 

 and also are found in Prince William Sound, and in the Angoon area 

 (de Laguna, 1947, p. 207; 1956, pi. 36, 23, 24, pi. 37, 1; 1960, pi. 8, a; 

 Heizer, 1956, pi. 61). MacNeish (1960, p. 41, pi. vi, 8) illustrates a 

 slender antler point with six barbs on one side, prismatic section, 

 bordering and medial lines, and plain conical tang. "Points similar 

 to these are found throughout Athabascan territory in late prehistoric 

 and earlj^ historic time periods." But it is not certain whether this 

 observation applies to all the stj^listic features. 



Six slender barbed arrowheads (fig. 17, c, d, g-i, k) have flattened 

 and rounded or roughly squared off bases, not detached tangs. They 

 lack bordering lines, and were apparently from 12 to 22 cm. long 

 when complete, with up to four or five barbs. They appear to rep- 

 resent a careless (?) divergence from the pattern characteristic of 

 southwestern Alaskan points, although a similar specimen was found 

 on Prince WilUam Sound (de Laguna, 1956, pi. 37, 3). Of these, 

 one is a broken specimen from Old Town III, four heads and three 

 fragments of presumably similar specimens are from Old Town II, 

 and one complete head is from Old Town I. 



Two damaged specimens (fig. 17, b, I) were found together in Sub- 

 surface Pit 38 below the Storage House in Old Town II, and are 

 similar to the points just described except that they are rather curved. 

 This suggests that they may have been points for multipronged arrows 

 or spears (leisters). The longer of the two was probably 17 cm. 

 long when complete, with four small barbs on the inner edge of the 

 curved shaft. The base is also cut on a curve. The other, probably 

 14.5 cm. long when complete, has three barbs on the slightly convex 

 edge, and is more nearly straight than the first. 



Identification of these is very uncertain, since the Copper River 

 Eyak and Chugach denied the use of multipronged darts or arrows 

 (Birket-Smith and de Laguna, 1938, pp. 112 ff.; Birket-Smith, 1953, 

 p. 38). However, one barbed point for such a weapon was found on 

 Prince William Sound and another on Cook Inlet, and this type of 

 weapon was well represented archeologically on Kodiak, the Aleutians, 

 and m northern Alaska (de Laguna, 1934, pi. 42, 23, p. 193; 1956, 

 pi. 36, 25; Heizer, 1956, pi. 60). The multipointed arrow has also 

 been reported from the central and southern Northwest Coast 

 (Barnett, 1939, Trait 973; de Laguna, 1947, p. 206). On the northern 



