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red veins, and show the same care in workmanship that is so noticeable a 

 feature of the implements figured on Plate I. The specimens figured are 

 from Dos Pueblos, and were collected by Dr. Yarrow and Mr. Schumacher. 

 Another specimen, now in Peabody Museum (No. 13581), 

 from near Santa Barbara, collected by Mr. Schumacher, 

 is of the same character as the one represented in Fig. 

 3 of the plate, but is about one inch longer, with well 

 defined serrated edges. 



As already mentioned, while the chipping is very 

 carefully done, there is a marked difference between 

 these spearheads and the preceding, in that in section 

 they are not oval, but of uniform width from edge to 

 edge, and these edges are not so smoothly wrought as in 

 the case of the dagger-like implements. 



While disposed to consider such large specimens as 

 those figured upon Plate II as heads of spears or lances, 

 and that the point rather than the edges was the principal 

 feature of the implement ; yet, as weapons of this charac- 

 ter, they were necessarily greatly exposed to fracture, 

 and the labor of producing them seems scarcely war- 

 ranted. The allied forms, if not identical, found in the 

 Atlantic coast States are seldom so delicately fashioned, 

 and are somewhat thicker — a difference arising, doubt- 

 less, from the peculiarities of the mineral rather than 

 want of skill on the part of the workman. There are oc- 

 casionally met with, in New Jersey, objects of this char- 

 acter, of chalcedony, which, for delicacy of finish, are 

 quite equal to those here described. Especially such as 

 have been taken from graves, or discovered in the re- 

 moval of supposed mounds, are of remarkable finish 

 and beauty. Such spearheads from Gloucester County, New Jersey, 

 associated with tubes of clay-slate, also in many respects like Pacific coast 

 specimens, have been met with. The numbers of these elaborate specimens, 

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