. Archaeologia Nova Caesarea. Pig. 3. Indian spear-heads of jasper. (J^) Treating of spear-heads found in the State of New York,Rev. W. M. Beauchampi states that the Iroquois, according Aboriginal Chipped Stone Implements of New York: Bulletin ofthe New York State Museum. Vol. iv, No. 16, p. 39. Albany, N. Y.,1897. 33 to their historian, L. H. Morgan, did not use the spear,while: Oti the other hand, in his picture of Atotarho,David Cusick placed a spear in the hand of one of his mes-sengers. Bruyas has allusions to spears in his early Mohawklexicon, and their occasional use may be inferred fro

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. Archaeologia Nova Caesarea. Pig. 3. Indian spear-heads of jasper. (J^) Treating of spear-heads found in the State of New York,Rev. W. M. Beauchampi states that the Iroquois, according Aboriginal Chipped Stone Implements of New York: Bulletin ofthe New York State Museum. Vol. iv, No. 16, p. 39. Albany, N. Y.,1897. 33 to their historian, L. H. Morgan, did not use the spear,while: Oti the other hand, in his picture of Atotarho,David Cusick placed a spear in the hand of one of his mes-sengers. Bruyas has allusions to spears in his early Mohawklexicon, and their occasional use may be inferred from theJesuit relations, but somiewhat obscurely. The Iroquoissword, whatever that may have been, was often gives the word for spear in several Iroquoisdialects, and Zeisberger uses for lance the name whichappears in another lexicon, half a century earlier. OneVirginia picture has Indians with fishing spears, but theseare described as having wooden points, not metal or weapon so useful was not like

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