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2. Edges concave or nearly straight. There are very few of this 

 form, as nearly all with the base convex have the edges also convex. 

 The type (figure 200) is from Lawrence county, Ohio; others are from 

 Miami and Scioto valleys, Ohio; Kanawha valley; and 

 southeastern and southwestern Arkansas. 



Two exceptional forms, which may be considered 

 modifications of the triangular, come from 

 eastern Tennessee and western North 

 Carolina. The first, which is pentagonal, 

 is shown in figure 201 ; the second, a me- 

 dium between a perforator and a deeply 

 serrated, triangular arrowpoint, is shown 

 in figure 202. • '«' 



" , ,. Fia. 201.— Chipped 



While it IS likely that the smaller flints, fl>nt, pentagonal. 

 last described, were intended for arrows, it can not be 

 stated with confidence whether they were for use in war 



riG.200.-Chipp.rt . , ^. I. . • , .,, ^ r ^, 



flint, edges comave. or lu huiituig. It IS Said that some ot the western 

 Indians used barbless arrows with long, tapering blades, firmly attached 

 to the shaft, for hunting, while for war barbed arrows, only slightly 

 attached, were employed.' 



In many arrows with triangular points in the National 

 Museum the sinew with which the flint is fastened to the 

 shaft is brought over the corner or shoulder in such a way 

 as to bind the point as firmly as could be done if it were 

 barbed or stemmed, so that when the shaft is drawn from a 

 wound the point must come with it. If an arrowhead of 

 this form were inserted in a shaft, which was then wrapped 

 behind the flint, the latter would remain in the wound 

 when the shaft was withdrawn. 



There is no reason for supposing that only the larger 

 points were used for war purposes; the greater peuetrating 

 power of the thin, sharp ones would seem to fit them espec 

 ^^arrow and' i^lly for such work, and it is probable that the smaller 

 thick. straight or tapering-stemmed flints (next to be described) 



were also utilized for this purpose, as they could be easily detached. 

 Those with expanding stem may have been used for hunting, as they 

 could be permanently fastened to the shaft. 



Stemmed Flints. 



The abundant and variable materia.1 of this class may roughly be 

 grouped by form into two divisions, in the first of which the stem is 

 tapering or straight, while in the second the stem is generally expanding. 



STRAIGHT OR TAPER STEMS. 



A. Square or rounded shoulders ; stem concave at base; edges usually 

 convex, rarely straight or concave. Nearly all are of quartzite or coarse 



'Lon^: Esp. to Kocky Mountains, vol. I. p. 290. Dodge; Our Wild Indiaii.s, p. 418. 



