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276 RELICS OF A HOMESTEAD OF THE STONE AGE. * 
interesting, in showing a good deal more than usual variation in 
the materials used. The minerals being quartz, purple, yellow, and 
brown jasper, hornstone, slate, sandstone, and a peculiar conglom- 
erate containing mica, not often met with in the shape of relics. 
Considered in the matter of types, we found there were sixteen 
stemmed arrowpoints, of large size, excellent workmanship, and 
all of jasper, of the various colors in which this mineral occurs. 
Six of these specimens were barbed and stemmed, the others had 
simply a projecting tang. Four were flat, thin and sharply edged ; 
the others mostly with a median ridge. 
There was also a pretty, triangular arrowpoint, two and one-half 
inches long, and one and one-half inches wide at the base; and a 
quartz point that was pentagonal, approaching thus the leaf-shaped 
form, which was noticeably absent in this fin 
The white quartz arrowpoints numbered forty-four specimens, 
and as a rule were small, and of less finish than specimens of this 
mineral are apt to be. Twenty-nine were stemmed ; five were of 
the “lozenge” pattern, and ten were triangular specimens, these 
latter all having the concave base. Of the stemmed specimens 
only three had ‘ notched bases.” 
Of what might be called common specimens, there were forty- 
eight that could be separated into six types, as follows : seven were 
lozenge-shaped points, and excellent examples of this form; ten 
were triangular points, four with concave bases, five with straight 
bases, and one with a convex base, being almost a leaf-shaped 
specimen; two were true leaf-shaped points; and one of this pat- 
tern, but stemmed also, being a form not often met with ; ten were 
excellent barbed arrowpoints, that is, with the corners of the blade 
sharply pointed and making the base of the blade much wider than 
the stem; eleven specimens were of the “notched base” pattern, 
i. e. with a stem about as wide as the blade, and separated from it 
only by a semicircular notch or indentation; seven were plain 
stemmed points, a form that is not readily distinguished from the 
lozenge shape, as we recognize that pattern among the specimens 
y us. Indeed, the plain stemmed arrowpoint graduates 
readily into the true leaf-shaped form. 
Of spearheads there were but five specimens ; two short stemmed 
examples, made of slate, and in no way noticeable. A third was — 
of slate also, but much more carefully wrought, and a beauti- 
sion example of the “ notched base” pattern. It measured four 
