AN ERIE INDIAN VILLAGE AND BURIAL SITE 537 



Complete flint articles were not numerous on the surface although 

 there was an abundance of chips and broken blades. The ash pits 

 contained numbers but the graves the most. The lack of finished 

 points on the surface may be due to the fact that each year as the 

 ground was plowed the arrow points were picked up. The older 

 inhabitants say that bushels of arrows and " skinning stones " have 

 been carried off. It is probable that most of the durable objects 

 left on the surface when the site was deserted by its aboriginal in- 

 habitants have been removed by the white tillers of the soil who 

 followed them at a later period and whose curiosity was aroused by 

 the strange artifacts which were turned up by their plows. At any 

 rate very little was found except below plow depth. 



Of the points that might be safely termed arrowheads there were 

 but two that had notched shoulders. With these exceptions all the 

 arrowheads were triangular. The workmanship was good and most 

 of the points were thin and evenly worked. The material in general 

 was gray flint or chert but some points were found made from 



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Fig. 21 Spear or knife of translucent 

 chalcedony. The only form of this im- 

 plement found in the site 



yellow jasper. Most of the points found on the eastern slope of the 

 knoll were of this material. The various forms of triangular flints 

 are shown in plate 24. 



Of the flint blades, not arrow points, only two had notched 

 shoulders. One of these was a beautifully wrought blade^ a spear 



