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Straight based specimens, as given in Figs. 56, 57, 58 and 
59, are very frequently picked up where arrowheads are found 
at all. Used wholly in bow and arrow hunting, they are scattered 
pretty much every where. Falling by Fig. 56. 
chance, hither and thither when the hunter 
failed to strike the game, they have been 
left for anthropological entertainment until 
our time, to be gazed at and their work- 
manship admired. The most usual form of 
this class is the plain triangle (Fig. 56). 
Of white or rose quartz or of black slaty or 
quartzose stone, they present, in the field, 
so much of a contrast to surrounding peb- 
bles, as to be readily detected and picked up. This same even 
edged triangle varies considerably in breadth and Fig. 57. 
length, the extreme in ‘length being the quartz 
arrowpoint (Fig. 57). Between these two ex- 
tremes, all the variations of relative length and 
Fig. 58. breadth exist. This latter figure is 
ie perhaps a little more abundant than 
the preceding, and when evenly cut 
from a piece of veined or rose quartz 
is a very beautiful specimen of an- 
cient stone work. The minimum size 
of equilateral triangular arrowheads 
of this pattern is shown in Fig. 58. This specimen 
Fig. 59. is cut from a piece of dark 
; chocolate jasper. Its size is usually found 
cut from black stone, and is generally of 
equally good workmanship. Like the 
more slender, green jasper specimen (Fig. 
52), it must have been used only in secur- 
ing small birds and mammals. A rare form 
of this class is the pretty specimen (Fig. 
59). This is cut from a piece of green-. 
ish jasper, and while very peculiarly out- 
: lined, still bears some resemblance to the 
these already described (Fig. 55). The base also approaches 
of the beautiful specimen, Fig. 45. Indeed, we were at first 
Inclined to believe that that form was intended, but the narrow 
Natural size. 
Natural i 
Natural size, 
