FOWKE] 



CHIPPED FLINTS, WIDE STEMS. 



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western Alabama; southwestern Georgia, and about Savannah in the 

 same state. The style of chipping is frequently such as to give ser- 

 rated edges, as in the specimen figured. 



0. Long; slender; thin; short, small stem; convex base; notched 

 upward from the corners of the base; short barbs. The type shown iu 

 figure 236 is from Loudon county, Tennessee, and other specimens come 

 from eastern Tennessee and southeastern Arkansas. ^E!!^^ 



P. Convex edges and base; sometimes, though very 

 seldom, the edges are nearly straight; the typical, 

 leaf-shape implement, except for the notch, which is 

 always worked in from the widest part of the specimen 

 at right angles to the axis. The base is invariably 

 polished, even iu the smallest specimens. From Licking 

 county (figure 237) as well as from Jliami valley and 

 throughout central Ohio; Kanawha valley; eastern Ten- 

 nessee; southwestern Illinois; northeastern Alabama; 

 southern Wisconsin; and about Savannah, Georgia. 



Q. Edges less convex than the last, sometimes 

 straight; the notches are worked in nearer the base, 

 going in an angle of about 45 degrees, instead of perpen- 

 dicular to the middle line or axis. Sometimes the blade 

 is of uniform thickness until very close to the edges, 

 which are worked off in a double chisel-edge. Very 

 few of these, or of group P, are small enough for arrows. 

 Usually symmetrical and well finished ; the base always ''''\i^!;hVm"!i ttem"' 

 polished, but whether from use or to add to the utility of the specimen 

 can not be determined. From Miami valley, Ohio; Keokuk, Iowa; 

 southwestern Wisconsin ; and eastern Tennessee. 



R. Dittering from the two last described only in being 

 longer, and iu having the stem always come to a point 

 by either convex or concave lines, instead of being regu- 

 larly convex; base never polished. From Kanawha 

 valley. West Virginia, and central Arkansas. 



»S'. Edges usually straight, sometimes concave, rarely 



convex; notched in deeply from edges; seldom barbed ; 



stem nearly always wider than the blade, and large. 



Base convex; occasionally somewhat concave with 



rounded corners, and nearly always polished. Some 



(including all from the Savannah collection) are beveled 



and a few have blunt and ronnded points, apparently 



broken specimens reworked. From less than an inch 



to nearly 3 inches long. Even among the very small 



ones, some have the base polished. 



An implement of this form, or of any form in which the stem is wide 



or with very long tangs, and especially with concave base, would be 



well adapted for hunting purposes. The wide stem would allow firm 



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Fig. 



-Stemmed 



Pig. 237.— Stemmed 

 chipped Jiint, oval 

 iiutline, notched. 



