502 ANTHROPOLOGY. 
specimen is equally as well wrought as the larger, and varies from 
- them only in having a notched base, rather than a narrow and 
straight stem. It is flat upon one side and convex upon the other, 
with a beautifully chipped bevelled edge. It certainly was made 
Fig. 131. 
from a nodule of jasper directly, and not from a broken arrow- 
head, chipped into a scraper. 
_ Another small specimen varies from the above in being of much 
greater width and of the same length. The edge in this case is 
bevelled from each side, so that the specimen may have been origi- 
lly an arrowhead. The form of the implement suggests the 
arrowheads described by Schoolcraft, as being employed by 
boys 1 when learning to use the bow and arrow; being made 
+ pierce the target. This type of handles 
babel. 
