The stone age in North America, vol. 1 of 2Moorehead, Warren K. (Warren King)
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The stone age in North America, vol. 1 of 2
Moorehead, Warren K. (Warren King)
Indians of North America -- Antiquities; Stone age -- North America
FIG. 120. (S. 1–2.) Typical Oregon projectile points. H. P. Hamilton’s
collection, Two Rivers, Wisconsin.
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In order to place the evidence I have collected along these lines before
readers, I would cite the finding of twenty-two axes in one room of a
ruined pueblo, five miles south of Phoenix, Arizona, in 1897. These are
of the variety of stone and the same workmanship. Six particular
disc-pipes were found in graves at the mouth of the Wabash by Clifford
Anderson, in 1898, when exploring for the founder of the Archæology
Department of Phillips Academy. I would mention the effigy pipes found
by Squier and Davis at Mound City, a cache of forty leaf-shaped
implements, slightly different from the ordinary leaf-shaped knife of
similar material and the same workmanship, found in 1896 in a mound near
Coshocton, Ohio, the Hopewell discs, and the Hopewell sheet copper.
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FIG. 121. (S. 1–3.) White flint knives and arrow-heads. These are from
Michigan-Wisconsin sites and illustrate the peculiar forms obtained
there. The types are long and slender or short and broad and are
easily recognized. H. P. Hamilton’s collection, Two Rivers,
Wisconsin.
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[Illustration:
FIG. 122. (S. 1–2.) These are the finest points in the Ozark region,
where most of the types are crude. Materials: chert and quartz. At
the bottom in the centre are shown three points almost Oregon-like
in character. Attention is called to the serrated point in the
middle row. Dr. W. C. Barnard’s collection, Seneca, Missouri.
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[Illustration:
FIG. 123. (S. 1–1.) These points are different from Oregon points so
frequently shown. Materials: opalescent and white chalcedony and
mauve quartzite. These are Eastern types, but are made of Western
material. Luther A. Norland’s collection, La Jara, Colorado.
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[Illustration:
FIG. 124. (S. 1–2.) Common New Jersey forms. Stephen Van Rensselaer’s
collection, Newark, New Jersey.
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[Illustration:
FIG. 125. (S. 2–3.) A Mohawk Valley type. Langdon Gibson’s collection,
Schenectady, New York.
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[Illustration:
FIG. 126. (S. 1–7.) Twenty-eight fine spear-heads. These are from the
Ohio Valley, and present most of the forms of stemmed and barbed
objects. John T. Reeder’s collection, Houghton, Michigan.
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[Illustration:
FIG. 127. (S. 1–3.) Two symmetrical implements. Material: reddish
flint. These were found in central New Jersey, and may have been
obtained by barter or exchange. Stephen Van Rensselaer’s collection,
Newark, New Jersey.
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[Illustration:
FIG. 128. (S. 1–1.) Small, delicate obsidian points, found in a ruin,
Mesa, Arizona. Andover collection.
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