FLINTS WORN BY USE. 



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it was used must have been quite soft or thin. Similar wear is seen on 

 implements from the same locality of the form of figures 176 and 223, 

 but this article is smaller than those represented by the figures. 

 In figure 278 is shown a small knife of the pattern so common in 



Fig. 276 Chipped flint, with 



sharp-edj^ed ateni. 



Fig. 277 Steiiiineil cliipped flint, 



point blunted from use. 



specimens mounted in antlers, from the Swiss lake dwellings. In out- 

 line it resembles the arrowheads having straight edges and a convex 

 base ; but the side view shows the purpose for which it was made. Sim- 



FlG. 278 Stemmed chipped flint. 



ilar pieces are found throughout central Ohio, and along Ohio river 

 from the Kanawha to the ^liami. 



l!}^OTES ON BEVELED FLINTS. 



In the beveled flints the side-chipping jiroducing the bevel is always 

 to the left, as may be seen in figure 235 ; only one exception to this has 

 been found. It has been supposed that this is done to give a rotary 

 motion to an arrow. Morgan^ says that "arrowheads are occasion- 

 ally found with a twist to make the arrow revolve in its flight;" and 



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' League of the Iroquois, p. 358. 



