The stone age in North America, vol. 2 of 2Moorehead, Warren K. (Warren King)
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The stone age in North America, vol. 2 of 2
Moorehead, Warren K. (Warren King)
Indians of North America -- Antiquities; Stone age -- North America
2. The second form is furnished with a long, narrow, lanceolate blade,
often twice or more than twice as long as the stem. The socket and stem
rarely taper upward and are of more nearly equal width throughout. In
both this and the preceding form the flanges of the socket are rolled
inward, in some instances nearly meeting. The average length of these
points appears to be about five inches. The largest specimen known
measures eleven and one half inches in length. Such specimens are to be
seen in nearly every Wisconsin cabinet.
In the very limited number of the smaller specimens the face of the
blade, rarely the back, is ornamented with indentations. The edges of
the blade are also sometimes beveled.
Among the smaller specimens is observed a variety in which the length of
the stem equals or exceeds that of the blade. In some specimens the
socket has the appearance of having been formed by excavating the stem,
the narrow flanges being continuous with the blade instead of cut and
turned inward as in the ordinary form. A small number of iron socketed
spear-points, not differing greatly from the ordinary socketed copper
point, have been found.
Peculiar points. In several Wisconsin collections are several
spear-points of curious form not included under any of the foregoing
descriptions or represented, so far as can be learned, in other
Wisconsin cabinets.
[Illustration:
FIG. 610. (S. 1–1.) Ornamented copper plate, Seip Mound, Ohio. W. C.
Mills’s collection.
]
One of these in the H. P. Hamilton collection has a long slender blade
and a very short socket. It is seven and one quarter inches in length
and comes from Two Rivers, Manitowoc County. Its blade is ornamented
with a row of nine indentations.
In the Milwaukee Public Museum is a series of three peculiar socketed
spear-points of an average length of about eight and one half inches.
The blade of each of these is very long and narrow, with straight edges,
and terminates in a sharp point. The stem is very short and narrow in
comparison with the blade and broadens into a short socket at its base.
One specimen has the middle of its blade, from near the base toward the
middle, ornamented with a continuous zigzag indentation. Another has
upon its blade a series of dots arranged in a triangular form. Two of
these points come from Fond du Lac County, and the other from Sheboygan
County.
_Harpoon-Points_
The purpose of these implements is too plain to make any explanation
necessary. Four distinct types of harpoon-points, none of which are as
yet known to be of other than very infrequent occurrence, have been
obtained in Wisconsin. What special application any of these several
patterns may have had is not yet clear. The following is a brief
description of them:—
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