ABORIGINAL CHIPPED STONE IMPLEMENTS OF NEW YORK 23 



of common flint, and is one and one half inches long. Most of these 

 are from Onondaga county. The same form often appears in 

 scrapers. Fig. 22 can hardly be assigned any other place, although too 

 long and heavy to be strictly called an arrow, being two and three 

 quarters inches long, and very coarsely chipped. It is of common 

 flint, and occurs on the Seneca river in smaller sizes. As an arrow 

 it might have been used to stun fish. 



Fig. 23 is a fine arrow of the bunt form, quite flat, and with a 

 finely rounded edge. It is one and three eighths inches long, and is 

 made of a fine brown flinty sandstone. In this the stem expands at 

 the base. Fig. 24 is even finer, and is of dark blue flint, about one 

 and one quarter inches long. It differs from the last in having dis- 

 tinct barbs. Fig. 25 has a simple rounded stem, and is a beautiful 

 specimen, made of light grey and lustrous jasper. It is from Cross 

 lake, and is nearly one and seven eighths inches long. This is more 

 properly a scraper, for though it is neatly chipped all over both sides, 

 yet one side is much the flatter, and the edge is cut at the usual 

 angle. It may be considered an intermediate form. A large propor- 

 tion of the bunts on Seneca river have the rounded end, but some 

 are angular. They are quite variable. 



Among the stemmed but notchless forms are many having a sug- 

 gestion of barbs, and of the kind which Catlin called hunting arrows. 

 This projection, when not carried below a horizontal line, is now 

 called a shoulder, and is a frequent feature. The edges may be 

 straight or curved, and they are so common as scarcely to require 

 illustration. Fig. 26 is a good typical specimen, made of light grey 

 flint, and one and seven eighths inches long. This is from Cross lake. 

 An infinite variety will be found in this simple form, produced by 

 variations in length, breadth, and proportion of parts. Fig. 27 is a 

 very odd example, of yellow jasper, suggesting both the pentagonal 

 and bunt arrows, and having deep notches. A little central point 

 also suggests the drill. It comes from Tonawanda and is but little 

 over an inch long. Fig. 28 is still more curious here, being more 

 like extreme western forms than those of New York. It is very 

 small, too, though others here, of a different outline, are less than 

 half the length of this. It might be described as a narrow and a 



