The stone age in North America, vol. 1 of 2

by Warren K. Moorehead

Second row—First two, Oregon; next two, Natchez, Mississippi, Professor E. H. Williams’s collection; next, Santa Anna, Texas; next two, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

Third row—White quartz, Georgia and Virginia.

Fig. 68. (S. 1–2.) Maine knives, and two spear-heads. Material: block flint, porphyry, quartzite. A. E. Marks’s collection, Yarmouth, Maine.

Fourth row—Two to the left from Massachusetts; central long one, Illinois; four small ones to right, Willamette Valley, Oregon; three small ones over these, from Natchez, Mississippi, Professor E. H. Williams’s collection.

Fig. 69. (S. 2–3.) Lance-head. Material: jasper. Stephen Van Rensselaer’s collection, Newark, New Jersey.

Fig. 70. (S. 1–2.) Lance-head (?). Dudley A. Martin’s collection, Duboistown, Pennsylvania.

In Fig. 51 I have shown the projectile points and knives without stems. Some of these are clearly triangular arrow-points, others are knives with flat bases or concave bases. The convex base, except in minute projectile points, is rare. Most knives have straight or concave bases.