VARIETIES OF CHIPPED SPADES. 



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The {)riiicipal 



tlint this distinction must be considered intentional 

 varieties are as follows: 



A. Those with pointed ends. Figure 169 represents a typical speci 

 men of yellow flint, from Union county, Illinois. 



Southwestern Illinois 



Southeastern Arkansas 



Cheatham county, Tennessee. 

 Union county, Mississippi 



B. Those with the ends rounded, 

 flint, from Union county, lUiuoi.s). 



Represented by figure 170 (yellow 



A specimen from Jackson county, Illinois, has had a portion of the 

 edge broken squarely. The polish over this fractured surface shows 

 that it was long used after breaking without being rechipped to a sharp 

 edge. This indicates usage only in loose ground, as it evidently would 

 be quite difficult to force the square, broken part into a hard soil or 

 tough sod. 



The specimens from Polk county, Tennessee, are pecked or chipped, 

 or both, and are quite roughly made. They are neither scratched nor 

 polished, and may be unfinished iinplemeuts of some other class, though 

 agreeing closely with the flint spades in shape and size. 



C. A modification of the last form has the upper portion cliii)ped 

 away along the sides until it is ovoid, with a blunt point, leaving the 

 lower part a regular curve. An e.xample, shown in figure 171, is of 

 grayish brown flint, from Scott county, Missouri. There are also one 

 eachfi'om Mississippi county, Missouri, and Hopkins county, Kentucky, 

 of the same material. 



I). Like the above, but much shorter in ratio to the width, and with 

 a flatter curve. The type, figure 172, is of yellow flint, from a mound in 

 Obion county, Tennessee. There are also three from Union county, Illi- 

 nois, one of them with almost the same dimensions. 



