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section, Drucker (1950, Trait 508) records it only from the Haida 

 and the southern coastal Tsimshian, not from the Tlingit; multi- 

 pointed bird spears were denied by all of Drucker's (1950, p. 234) 

 informants on the Northwest Coast. It would thus appear that even 

 if the multipronged arrow were used at Yakutat, it was a rare type 

 among the mainland tribes of southwestern Alaska and the northern 

 Northwest Coast. However, there were four examples of barbed 

 leister side prongs in the Maritime and Late Phases at Cattle Point, 

 and King (1950, p. 46, fig. 13, S3) also notes similar specimens from 

 archeological sites at Marpole (Eburne), Port Hammond, and North 

 Saanich, as well as ethnological records of barbed multipointed spears 

 from the Twana and Makah. 



On the whole, the barbed arrowheads from Yakutat seem most 

 similar to Chugach specimens. There were too few Tlingit examples 

 from Angoon to permit detailed comparisons, although the one 

 complete specimen was very similar to some Yakutat heads. None 

 of the particular types described by Drucker (1943, pp. 39 ff., fig. 5) 

 from the Tlingit, Haida, Tsimshian, southern Kwakiutl, and Coast 

 Salish is sufficiently like any Yakutat specimen to suggest close 

 resemblances, although there are some similarities in particular 

 features. Drucker's observation that collections, especially from the 

 northern Tlingit, contained heavy points ''of obvious Eskimo or 

 Aleut type," is equally applicable to the Yakutat material. Fixed 

 barbed bone or antler points are, of course, well developed in the 

 Gulf of Georgia and Fraser Delta areas, but seem to offer no close 

 parallels in style to these northern forms. 



It should be noted that we found no slender barbed bone arrow- 

 heads that were slotted or grooved to hold stone or metal blades, 

 hke those from Kachemak Bay, Kodiak, or the Tlingit (de Laguna, 1934, 



Figure 17. — Barbed points and arrowheads. Drawn by Donald F. McGeein. a, Bone 

 arrowhead (?), from Mound B, lower levels, Old Town II (No. 291); b, barbed bone point 

 for arrow (or leister), found with / in Subsurface Pit 38 below Storage House, Old Town 

 II (No. 427); c, d, fragments of barbed bone points, from box in center of House 8, Old 

 Town II (Nos. 913, 912); e, fragment of barbed bone arrowhead, with splitting adz (No. 

 40) and cut bone (No. 48), from bottom of Subsurface Pit 14, Mound B, lower levels, 

 Old Town II (No. 47);/, point of barbed (?) bone arrowhead, from Mound A, upper levels, 

 Old Town III (No. 362); g, barbed bone arrowhead, from Mound D, upper levels, Old 

 Town I (No. 900); h, fragment of barbed bone arrowhead (?), from Mound A, upper levels, 

 Old Town III (No. 330); t, barbed bone arrowhead, from Mound B, lower levels, Old 

 Town II (No. 576); ;, barbed wooden arrow point, from fill of House 9, Old Town III 

 (No. 860); k, fragment of barbed bone arrowhead, from fill of Storage House, Old Town 

 II (No. 234); /, barbed bone point for arrow (or leister), found with h in Subsurface Pit 38 

 below Storage House, Old Town II (No. 424); m, barbed bone arrowhead, from Mound B, 

 upper levels, Old Town III (No. 100/290); n, o, barbed bone arrowheads, from Mound B, 

 lower levels, Old Town II (Nos. 153, 655). 



