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said, " Their hookes are either a bone, grated as they noch their 

 arrowes, in the forme of a crooked pinne or iish-hooke, or of the 

 splinter of a bone tyed to the clift of a little sticke, and with the 

 end of the line they tie on the bait. They vse also long arrowes 

 tyed in a line, wherewith they shoote at fish in the rivers. But 

 they of Accawmack vse staues like vnto Iauelins headed with 

 bone. With these they dart fish swimming in the water." Smith, 

 p. 31 



Here we are to understand that the long arrow, used in fishing, 

 had a line attached to prevent- its loss, while some Indians used a 

 longer and stronger handle, requiring no such precaution. 



At a later day John Josselyn said much the same in his Account 

 of two voyages to New England. Some fish the Indians took in 

 the harbors, " striking them with a fisgig, a kind of dart or staff, to 

 the lower end whereof they fasten a sharp jagged bone (since they 

 make them of Iron) with a string fast to it, as soon as the fish is 

 struck they pull away the staff, leaving the bony head in the fishes 

 body, and fastening the other end of the string to the CanowP 

 Josselyn, p. 140 



The account suggests the barbed and perforated Iroquois harpoon. 



Before considering the many types of the barbed bone harpoon, 

 a few examples may be given of the simpler arrowhead. 



Fig. 12 is a good example of the hollow bone point, found by Dr 

 Getman at Perch river in 1899. This is nicely ground and sharp. 

 Fig. 14 is a much larger size, and is of partly polished horn. Like 

 the last, it is nearly cylindric. It was found by Dr Hinsdale at 

 Brewerton. Fig. 22 has been noticed, but some consider this type 

 as arrow points. This is not the writer's opinion. 



Fig. 77 is a rare form from the McClure site, Hopewell. It is a 

 triangular bone arrow, with indented base and broken point. The 

 compression of the base serves a double purpose, to sharpen the 

 barbs and affix the shaft. Fig. 78 is from Oneida Valley, and is in 

 the Hildburgh collection. It is thickest in the center, and is not a 

 frequent form. Fig. 79 may be provisionally placed in this general 

 class, since it is hollow and pointed, but the large perforations add 

 new features. These are not opposite, nor is the base cut straight 

 across as in the arrowheads. Its size is another thing, and it may 



