ARROW-HEADS. 



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that sometimes the stone is completely perforated, which 

 favors the views of those who regard these implements as 

 ringstones for nets, or small hammer heads. 



Other stones, in which the longer axis is encircled by a 

 groove, appear to have been evidently intended as sinkstones 

 for nets. 



The arrow-heads are divided by Sir "W. R. Wilde into five 

 varieties. Firstly, the triangular (fig. 90), which frequently 

 had a notch on each side to receive the string 

 which attached it to the shaft ; secondly, that 

 which is hollowed out or indented at the base, 



FIQ. 93. 



FIG. 90. 



Fio. 91. 



Arrow-heads. 



as in fig. 91 ; thirdly, the stemmed arrow, which has a tang 

 or projection for sinking into the shaft ; fourthly, when the 

 wings are prolonged on each side, this passes into the barbed 

 arrow (fig. 92) ; finally, we have the leaf-shaped form, a 

 beautiful example of which is represented in fig. 93. The 

 true arrow-heads are generally about an inch in length, but 

 they pass gradually into the javelin, and from that into the 

 spear-head. There are various other kinds of flint imple- 

 ments, such as hammers, saws, harpoons, etc., but omitting 

 for the present the drift types these are the principal 

 forms. 



Some of the old Spanish writers on Mexico give us a 



