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point a rhomboidal cross-section (figures 16 and 21). Some have a bifurcate 
base, especially those with somewhat broadly triangular blades (figures 
5, 13, 14, 18, 25, and 26). Most of the points are notched. 1 The triangular 
points are mostly large, in a few cases thick, and are either concaved on all 
edges or have convex edges and a straight or concave base. Only a few are 
very thin, but many are delicately chipped. 
Arrow points are less common on Iroquoian than on Algonkian sites. 
Some are of the same types as Algonkian points, but the types illustrated 
on Plate III, figures 5, 6, 11, 14, 20, 21, 25, and 26, are lacking. Arrow 
points are commoner on Neutral than on other Iroquoian sites. The tri- 
angular type is the most common and it seems to be as common on post- 
European as on pre-European sites; in one instance, seventeen small, thin 
specimens, nearly uniform in size, being found in a grave. Some have 
convex edges (Plate XII, figures 1 and 2); others are slightly incurved on 
the edges and base. Most of them, especially those of the late pre-European 
and post-European periods, are small, thin, and delicately chipped to a 
sharp edge all around. There are very few pentagonal points, and those 
of the stemmed or shouldered but not barbed, notched, and notched and 
barbed types are less common than on Algonkian sites. One kind of 
notched point, with a narrow neck and nearly square-tanged stem, which is 
more common on Neutral than on other sites, was produced from a thin, 
triangular point by deeply notching both edges near the base (Plate XII, 
figures 3 and 4). Very few points have serrated edges and very few, also, 
have bevelled edges like those occasionally found on Algonkian sites, but 
most of them are much smaller; in fact, notched points generally are 
smaller and more delicate than most of those of the Algonkian. 
Spear points from Algonkian sites, which are mostly of the same 
types as the arrow points (See Plate IV, figures 1-4), are common on 
Algonkian sites, but only a few large points come from Iroquoian sites, 
one from a Mohawk-Onondaga site being 6 inches long; others, but smaller, 
have been discovered on other sites of the same culture. These, however, 
were probably used as knives and may have been obtained from Algon- 
kians, because the Iroquois are not known to have used spears. 2 
Leaf-shaped (Plate IV, figures 14-16) and asymmetric blades (Plate 
IV, figure 5), in some cases with only one sharp edge, abundant on Algon- 
kian sites, and occasionally found en cache , may either have been knives 
or unfinished spear points. Only a few small, leaf-shaped blades have 
been found on Iroquoian sites, one being a chert oblanceolate blade from 
an ossuary at a Neutral site of the transitional period. 
Ax Blades 
A few ax blades chipped from chert, with the broad end ground to a 
sharp cutting edge, have been found on Algonkian sites; they do not 
occur on Iroquoian sites. 
'Three hundred and peventy-two, or 92 per cent, out of four hundred points, collected by Mr. C. E. Kelson on 
his farm in Grantham tp., Lincoln co., Ont., and presented by him to the National Museum, are notched and 
stemmed. 
! Cartier’s vocabulary docs not include a word for spear, although there are words for bow and arrow. (See 
"The Voyages of Jacques Cartier"; published from the originals with translations, notes, and appendices, by H. P. 
Biggar, Publications of the Public Archives of Canada, No. 11, Ottawa, 1924, p. 81). 
