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In Peabody Museum, Cambridge, is a human vertebra transfixed with an 
antler arrowpoint, from Turpin's Farm, near Madisonville, Ohio." In this in- 
stance the point entered from the back, the tip of the arrowhead being embedded 
in the body of the vertebra. 
In the investigation of Burial Ridge, at Tottenville, Staten Island, Mr. 
George H. Pepper came upon three associated skeletons, among the bones of 
which were numerous arrowheads of antler, bone, and stone. One antler point 
was found engaged in a rib. 
Mr. A. C. Parker, curator of the New York State Museum, in a letter men- 
tions a skull found near the shore of Lake Champlain, opposite the village of 
Dresden, in which a long antler point had penetrated an eye-socket. 
In a communication from Dr. C. L. Metz reference is made to finding a 
human sacrum pierced by an arrow- or lancehead of deer antler, in the aboriginal 
cemetery near Madisonville, Ohio. The point, about 2.5 inches in length, evi- 
dently had traversed the abdominal cavity and penetrated the sacrum, the 
tip projecting beyond the posterior surface of the bone. 
The skull of Burial No. 240, “The Indian Knoll," as stated in the description 
of the remains, presents rounded perforations evidently made by antler points, 
but these presumably had been extracted before burial. 
Instances of human bones transfixed by points made from other materials 
are more numerous. 
The skull of Burial No. 172, “The Indian Knoll,” as stated in the description 
of the burials from this site, presents an irregular opening about one inch in di- 
ameter in the anterior part of the right temporal bone. The margins indicate 
that the injury was caused by a force applied from without, while the lower edge 
shows a distinct notch. In the cranial cavity was found a flint arrowhead so 
rude in character that ordinarily it would be classed as a reject. 
At Peabody Museum аге a skull from the aboriginal cemetery near Madison- 
ville, Ohio, bearing the point of a flint arrowhead in the occipital part; a vertebra 
from Tennessee with a fragment of a flint arrowpoint embedded in it. 
Mr. Parker refers to small, triangular, flint arrowpoints in a vertebra of an 
Indian skeleton found at Ripley, N. Y. 
Dr. Harlan I. Smith,‘ in his exploration of an aboriginal site in Mason County, 
Ky., found embedded in an os calcis part of a slender arrowhead of flint. Two 
lumbar vertebre from another burial at this place show wounds caused by a 
similar point. 
George G. Heye, Esq., of the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Founda- 
tion, New York, writes: ^We have two or more skulls and a few bones con- 
! Letter from Mr. C. C. Willoughby. 
2 Alanson Skinner, “The Indians of Manhattan Island and Vicinity," The American Museum 
Journal, vol. IX, No. 6, p. 149. 
? Mr. C. C. Willoughby in letter. 
4 “The Prehistoric Ethnology of a Kentucky Site," Anthropological Papers of the American 
Museum of Natural History, vol. VI, Part II, p. 226. 
