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Fig. 265.— Flake, 

 slender, proba- 

 bly for laucet. 



represented by the specimen from Licking county, Ohio, illustrated 

 in figure 264. It is found in central Ohio; north- 

 eastern Arkansas; Coosa valley, Ala- 

 bama; eastern Tennessee ; and west- 

 ern North Carolina. 



G. Long, slender, with three or 

 four facets on one face, caused by 

 ' others having been struck off above. 

 The edges are as keen as broken 

 jlass, and the points are u.sually 

 quite sharp. In a great many the 

 points have been worked off by fine, 

 secondary chipping. When this is 

 done, it is always at the end which 

 was struck in knocking oft' the flake. 

 In some cases it may be due to the 

 shattering effects of the blow; but 



F».264.-Fiake, chipped *" "''^^^ specimcus the evideucc is 

 for knife or arrow head, plain that it was donc afterward for 

 the purpose of making a sharper point. Some flakes of this kind 



have notches for attachment to a shaft, prob- 

 ably for arrows ; such specimens, however, 

 are without the secondary chipping, and the 

 notches are at the end opposite the one struck. 

 A good example, shown in figure 265, is 

 from Kanawha valley, and there are others 

 from the same locality, as well as from 

 Miiinii valley, Ohio; and ITnion county, 

 Mississippi. 



Miscellaneous Forms. 



From the Savannah collection there are 

 several forms of chipped flints which, while 

 resembling the foregoing in various ways, 

 present characters which make it necessary 

 to place them by themselves; and while con- 

 taining a majority of the types described 

 above, this collection has many that have 

 no counterpart from any other section visited 

 by the Bureau collectors. Some of these 

 unique specimens of aboriginal art are 



Fig. 266.— stemmed chipped flint, among the following: 



A. Edges double curved, expanding to a wide point at the shoulder; 

 stem straight or tapering; base either straight or slightly convex. 

 The type of the group is quite well represented in figure 266. 



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