Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution .. . Fig. 221.— Stemmed chippedflint, roughly made. tang; thin and well worked; from an inch to 2£ inches long. All fromSavannah have concave bases; a few are notched so as to have slightshoulders, and they are somewhat larger than from other fit better in this group, however, than in any other. A typicalexample, shown in figure 220, is from Montgomery county, NorthCarolina. Others are from centralNorth Carolina; eastern Tennessee; 4§southwestern Illinois; various locali-ti
Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution .. . Fig. 221.— Stemmed chippedflint, roughly made. tang; thin and well worked; from an inch to 2£ inches long. All fromSavannah have concave bases; a few are notched so as to have slightshoulders, and they are somewhat larger than from other fit better in this group, however, than in any other. A typicalexample, shown in figure 220, is from Montgomery county, NorthCarolina. Others are from centralNorth Carolina; eastern Tennessee; 4§southwestern Illinois; various locali-ties in South Carolina; and aboutSavannah, Georgia. C. Roughly made; unsymmetric-al, seemingly made hastily; of var-ious patterns, including all the com-mon shapes. Nearly all with convexedges, few straight, none straight or concave, often the ul»pped fl^ surface or fracture of the stone. Sometimes made from thetip of a broken larger specimen. From 1 to 5 inches long; slender orwide; usually thick, except when made from a thin flake. Edgesnotched just at the base
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