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STONE ART. 



1 ETH ANN. 13 



Fig. 25.T. — Perfiimtor. Btemmed 

 with cutting; poiut. 



Arkansas; Brown county, Illinois; South Ciirolina; and northeastern 

 Kentucky. Thus the type is common and its seographic range broad. 

 D. Long, slender point; shoulders wide or slightly barbed; stem 

 straight, tapering, or expanding: edges straight or concave. Some 

 would make good piercers for soft material, but very few could be used 

 as drills. A majority would be good arrowheads. Some have the edges 

 smooth, but if this was caused by drilling it 

 nuist have been done in enlarging holes already 

 made, since the implements so nuirked are very 

 /^ ^L^ i^l t^'*^- "^^^ faces of the blades show no ijolish or 

 t^'f'-iSMfe^/tL^.JF smoothness, such as might result from use as 

 knives. The specimen illustrated (figure 254) is 

 from Madison county, Alabama; others from 

 northeastern Alabama and Coosa valley; Scioto 

 valley, Ohio; eastei-n Tennessee; western and 

 central Korth Carolina; southwestern Arkansas; 

 Kanawha valley; and Savannah, Georgia. 



E. Stem may be of any form; wide shoulders; 

 never barbed; point or piercer narrow, well 

 worked, with edges pai'allel its entire length, and terminating in a cut 

 ting edge instead of a point. This form (shown in figure 255) is found 

 only in the collection from Savannah, Georgia. 



Blunt Arrowheads, ok 'Runts.' 



Certain arrowheads have the end opposite the base rounded or flat- 

 tened instead of pointed. Commonly, both faces are worked off equally, 

 to bring the edge opposite the middle line of the blade, though some- 

 times it may be a little to one side. The stem 

 and base are of any form found in the common 

 patterns of arrowheads. Few are barbed, 

 though many have shoulders. For the most 

 part, they are probably made from the ordi- 

 nary spearpoiuts or arrowheads and knives 

 that have had the ^joints broken off, though 

 some seem to have been intentionally made 

 this way originally. A few are smooth or fiq.266.- 

 polished at the ends, as though used as 

 knives or scrapers ; but most of them have no marks except such as 

 would result from being struck or shot against some hard substance; 

 even this being absent in many of them, as in the specimen represented 

 in the accompanying figure. 



Jones says that crescent-shaped arrows were used by southern Indians 

 for shooting off birds' heads,' and it is known that chisel-shape arrows 

 were much used during the Middle Ages.'' 



This type of aboriginal implement or weapon is shown in figure 256, 

 representing a specimen from Savannah, Georgia. Other examples 



1 Quoted by Dawson ; Fossil Men, p. 124. 

 'Evans: Stone Implements, p o53. 



-Blunt arrowhead, or 



" bunt." 



