146 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [Boll. 192 



pi. 42, 12, 13; 1947, p. 208; Heizer, 1956, fig. 43, g, fig. 44, a-d, j; 

 Niblack, 1890, pi. xxvii, figs. 112, 120). This type is also absent 

 from the Chugach collections. 



BARBED BIRD-BONE POINTS 



Six barbed points of bird bone from Old Town II are so much smaller 

 than the points identified as arrowheads that they may have been 

 barbs for compound fishhooks. One (pi. 13, d), 3.4 cm. long, with 

 two barbs and a defective base, has already been mentioned as a 

 possible head for a sea otter harpoon arrow. Four others (pi. 15, 

 a-c, k), 4.2 to 9.4 cm. long, have a single barb, and the last (pi. 15, 

 e), now broken, has a notch like a barb. Similar specimens, equally 

 difficult to identify, come from early prehistoric Chugach sites and 

 from the historic Tlingit fort of Daxatkanada near Angoon (de Laguna, 

 1956, pi. 36, 6, 12, pi. 37, 5, 8; 1960, p. 117, pi. 9, h). 



BARBED WOODEN POINTS 



There are three fragmentary barbed points of wood. Two are 

 very similar to the barbed bone points and may have been fore-ends 

 of arrows or of spears. One fragment from Old Town III (fig. 17, j) 

 is (8.6) cm. long, with three barbs and indications of a fourth. The 

 second (fig. 16, a), from Old Town II, now (23.2) cm. long, has three 

 barbs, and was more probably part of a spear. A fragment of a small 

 barbed wooden shaft, (5) cm. long, and 0.9 by 0.7 cm. in diameter, 

 also comes from Old Town III (fig. 15, a). It is unusual in having 

 3 rows of cuts that produce close-lying barbs, of which 11 are visible. 

 This specimen could have been part of an arrow, the undercutting 

 of the barbs perhaps designed to make the point snap off in the wound. 

 In style of barbing it resembles a (Haida?) detachable bone harpoon 

 head with bed for a blade (?) (Drucker, 1943, fig. 3, Z). I know of 

 no other comparable specimen. 



Although hardwood points for small game are recorded for several 

 tribes on the Northwest Coast: Tlingit, Haida, Tsimshian, Bella 

 Coola, and Nootka (Drucker, 1950, Trait 507), and were mentioned 

 by our Angoon informants (de Laguna, 1960, p. 114), such points 

 seem to have been unbarbed. The Yakutat examples should be 

 considered as copies of bone points. 



UNBARBED BONE ARROWHEADS 



Three bone arrowheads (pi. 15, u-w) with tang and sloping shoulders 

 are duplicates in bone of the small tanged slate arrowheads (cf. fig. 

 14, a, g). One of bird bone, 5.4 cm. long and 1.3 cm. wide, is from 

 Old Town I; a second is from Old Town II, and the largest, 7.4 by 

 1.3, is of split animal rib and probably also comes from Old Town II. 



