54 CHIPPED IMPLEMENTS. 



Jersey, as to suggest they were of ceremonial import, rather than designed 

 to meet the requirements of every day life. Fig. 2, Plate II, is scarcely 

 more than one-eighth of an inch in thickness, and if allowed to fall from a 

 table, even upon a carpeted floor, would probably break into two or more 

 pieces. As these large lanceheads are not, however, by any means rare, 

 they cannot be looked upon as exceptional productions of some unusually 

 skillful worker in chipped flints. Indeed, some of these larger specimens 

 bear evidence of hard usage in the deep nicks along the edges, and by the 

 detachment of exceptionally large flakes, which are not likely to be the 

 designed or accidental work of the flint-implement maker. These supposed 

 traces of use are quite prominent on Fig. 2, Plate II. 



Figs. 23 and 27, of Plate III, to which reference has already been 

 made, are the minimum sizes of spearheads proper, and of these dimensions 

 the form is an extremely abundant one throughout the country. In fact, 

 this will apply to almost every form of stone implement; as more careful 

 examinations of various and widely separated localities are continually 

 showing how many more relics of the native races do the extremes of our 

 territory possess in common than was at first supposed. 



Less common in the Atlantic coast States, but by no means rare, is a 

 larger size, that seems illy adapted for cutting, and of too great weight for 

 an arrowhead. Specimens from five to six inches in length are in the col- 

 lection, and may be considered as medium-sized spearheads. 



A series of seventeen arrowheads exhibit a general delicacy of out- 

 line and accuracy of finish. These present but little variation in form, and 

 are smaller, generally, than the same patterns when found in eastern and 

 central localities. Compared with a photograph of a series from Oregon 

 shellmounds (Peabody Museum, No. 7653), collected by Mr. Schumacher, 

 there does not appear to be the same excellence of workmanship in the 

 California specimens as is noticed, more especially in the tanged and barbed 

 arrowpoints, from Oregon. Some of those from Oregon excel the best 

 chipped specimens from the Southern and Middle States, and are equal to the 

 finest Danish specimens. 



Fig 10, Plate III, represents a triangular arrowhead of the maximum 

 size. The specimen is smoothly chipped from a quartz pebble, the flaking 



