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section (apparently of the class usually called "i)icks"), mounted in a 

 club which is cuived at the end to let the spike set in the end at a right 

 angle to the handle; and Brickell observes that the North Carolina 

 Indians used clubs or long poles, in the ends of which were fastened 

 artificially sharpened stones, or horns of animals.' Morgan also notes 

 that among the Iroquois rows of arrow-shaped chert heads about two 

 feet in extent have been' found lying side by side. They were set in a 

 frame and fastened with thongs, forming a species of sword.^ Accord- 

 ing to Tyloi- the Mexicans had a similar sword, with obsidian teeth 

 gummed in holes in a war club,'' and Bourke observed at Taos pueblo a 

 similar weapon with iron teeth.^ But the number of specimens found 

 mounted indicates that most of them were used as knives or scrapers. 



LARGER IMPLEMENTS. 



A. With base ami edges straight or slightly convex; corneis square. 

 The type illustrated in lignre 177 is from Montgomery county, North 

 Carolina. Similar forms come also from eastern Ten- 

 nessee; central and western North Carolina; southwest- 

 ern Illinois; Miami and Scioto valleys, and central Ohio; 

 southwestern Wisconsin ; northeastern and southwestern 

 Arkansas; northeastern and northwestern Alabama, 

 and Coosa valley in tiie same state; Kanawha valley. 

 West Virginia; northeastern and central Kentucky; and 

 Savannah, Georgia. 



B. Base straight or nearly so; edges jiarallel most 

 of the length, curving abruptly to a point; usually with 

 one face less convex than the other, 

 even quite flat, giving a plano- 

 convex section ; medium size. The 

 specimen shown in figure 178, from 

 Kanawha valley, West Virginia, i.-< 

 representative. Other example'- 



Fid. 177.— Triangu r. j. rn 



larchipiied flint, couie froui eastcru Teuuessee ; cen 

 tral North Carolina; northwestern Alabama; 

 Kanawha valley; and southwestern Illinois. 



C. Base straight or nearly so; corners square 

 or slightly rounded; edges convex, curving gradu- 

 ally and regularly to the point; usually widest 

 about one-third of the way above the base; vary- 

 ing much in width, and in length from tU inches 

 down to the arrowpoint. A few of the largest 



, ,, , T , ^, T i J.1 ■ • Fia. 178.— Chipned flint. 



have the edges slightly expanding at their .innc- 



tion with the base, for firmer attachment to a handle. The type is 



<'Si\t. Hist, of N. t\, p. ;U8. 



- League uf the Iroquois, p. 359. 



' Anahuac, p. 332. 



*Bourlie, Jolin Gr. ; Snalse Dance of the Moijuis. ji. 



i.)l. .See also Dodge; Our Wild Indians, plate 5. 



