212 THE STONE AGE IN NEW JERSEY. 
stem being broken, it was finished up as we now see it. Lately we 
have seen several stems like it, but smaller, and as they are all 
thinner than the stemmed arrowheads, and show nothing of the 
well marked central ridge that they have, we be- Fig. 60. 
lieve that this style was designed, just as it is, but 
probably for some especial purpose — some particu- 
lar game. They are about as scarce as any one va- 
riety, so far as our experience in collecting goes. 
The leaf-shaped arrowhead and its modifications, 
and those arrowheads with convex bases, are well 
represented in numbers, in the usual day’s “find” 
in any neighborhood good for collecting. The plain 
leaf-shaped form (Fig. 60) is the prevailing variety, 
and the difference in size in a large series is but very 
slight. They are generally chipped from white 
quartz, and exhibit careful workmanship. The point and edges 
are invariably sharp; the indestructible nature of Fig. 61. 
the mineral having helped to preserve them until ; 
this time. When first lost, who can say? A va- 
riety of this form, verging into the plain triangle 
A x 
Natural size. 
Fig. 62. 
shaft, which does 
not appear so read- 
ily in the case of the 
material (jasper) from the on! 
shown in Fig. 62. 
the general run of leaf-sh 
heads, even of that pe = ing 
— Its size indeed su 
and we are somewhat inclined to think that an arrow 
head would be a very uncertain weapon, in the hands ‘ 
ever good a marksman. 
We Wh ee eins ay 
preceding form. The present tomt 
is but seldom met with. 50 dis 
have varied but very little in a ie : 
ured. Another and petal i ái : 
is § 
than 
nd is larger 
of mottled slate, an i $ 
