. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution . Rude chipped Implements from the District of Columbia. (See page 635.) (Half natural size.) A STUDY OF PREHISTOEIC ANTHROPOLOGY. 637 ARROW OR SPEAR-HEADS, OR KNIVES. These are of almost every form, material, and size. With but slightdifferences in these qualities, they are found all over the United States,and are substantially the same as those of the prehistoric ages inall parts of the world. Their various uses, as indicated in the title,are not known with certaintv in all cases. Their difference in size. Fig. 11. Aruow-
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution . Rude chipped Implements from the District of Columbia. (See page 635.) (Half natural size.) A STUDY OF PREHISTOEIC ANTHROPOLOGY. 637 ARROW OR SPEAR-HEADS, OR KNIVES. These are of almost every form, material, and size. With but slightdifferences in these qualities, they are found all over the United States,and are substantially the same as those of the prehistoric ages inall parts of the world. Their various uses, as indicated in the title,are not known with certaintv in all cases. Their difference in size. Fig. 11. Aruow-heads. Different forms, from various localities in the United States. seems to have indicated the difference in name. Except for this thesame implement might have served as either arrow or spear-heador knife. A tang indicates attachment to a shaft or handle, and this,if found, would determine its purjiose. Instances of this attachmentoccur on the Pacific slope, but in the eastern half of the United Statesspecimens bearing such evidence are practically unknown. They mightbave been fastened with a cord, or with some adhesive substance. 638 KEPOirr OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1888.
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