1-9031, fig. 4, from stratum IX.
Instruments like the last have been found in many parts of the United States.[[123]] Several of these bear a great resemblance to those here shown, one such is pictured by Rau[[124]] from Santa Cruz Island, and one of like origin by Putnam,[[125]] one from Santa Rosa Island.[[126]] Traces of asphaltum found on the broad base of many similar ones would point to the fact of their once having been fastened to a shaft.[[127]]
[109] As regards its form it may be compared to the objects shown by Moorehead, l. c., p. 279, fig. 418, Nos. 2 (from Napa county) and 7, from North and Central California.
[110] l. c., p. 285, fig. 426, Nos. 3 and 5.
[111] The use of lip-pegs has never been observed in that region between Mexico and the northwest coast of North America. W. H. Dall, Public of the Bur. of Ethnology, 1881-82, III, p. 86.
[112] Smiths. Contrib., l. c., p. 304.
[113] l. c., p. 338, fig. 493.
[114] For the use of spears in California comp. Powers, l. c., pp. 221, 321, etc.
[115] No decorative or fantastic shapes were found among the obsidian objects as elsewhere in central California. Moorehead has shown some of these in l. c., p. 262. A curved hook-like object was found in the shellmound at Ellis Landing.