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The tip of the spear was, apparently always, provided with a 
foreshaft; this, as the drawing shows (fig. 89, /), was set into a 
hole drilled in the end of the main shaft. The holes in the two sock- 
eted specimens recovered by us are 1 inch deep by seven-sixteenths 
inch in diameter at the mouth. 
Traces of red staining are visi- 
ble on the example illustrated 
at f. 
As to foreshafts we have 
more data, four specimens hav- 
ing been taken from the débris 
in Cave I (pl. 84, 18-21). It 
will be noted that, although 
they differ somewhat in length 
(longest 6? inches, shortest 42 
inches), they are all made in the 
same way. Each has the butt 
tapered to fit the socket of the 
main shaft, the taper being 
sometimes roughed a little to 
provide a grip. The tips are 
deeply notched to receive the 
; stone points, which were made 
i fast with seizings and gum. 
z The chipped heads were ap- 
} parently of two types, the 
tanged and the plain. The 
only example recovered in its 
foreshaft (pl. 84, 18) is of the 
former variety. From the cists 
of the Sayodneechee cave, how- 
ever, came a number of points 
whose size makes it seem cer- 
tain that they were atlatl dart 
c e tips... A number of these are 
Fic. 89.—Details of atlatl dart. shown in figure 90; the majority 
are untanged and have more or less square bases. The workmanship 
is fine and in cross section they are markedly thinner than the ma- 
jority of southwestern chipped heads. 
Bunt points were not found by us, unless the specimen in figure 92 
is to be regarded as such. Pepper, however, shows several in his 
paper on the atlatls from Grand Gulch.? 
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1By comparison with tue data on fore shaft tips given by Pepper, 1905, p. 127. 
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