Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution .. . Kin. 253.—Perforator, stemmed, Fig. 254 Perforatorstemmed 168 STONE ART. [ ETH ANN. 13. Fig. 255.—Perforator, stemmed,with cutting point. Arkansas; Brown county, Illinois; South Carolina; and northeasternKentucky. Thus the type is common and its geographic range ). Long, slender point; shoulders wide or slightly barbed; stemstraight, tapering, or expanding; edges straight or concave. Somewould make good piercers for soft material, but very few could be usedas drills. A majority would be good ar
Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution .. . Kin. 253.—Perforator, stemmed, Fig. 254 Perforatorstemmed 168 STONE ART. [ ETH ANN. 13. Fig. 255.—Perforator, stemmed,with cutting point. Arkansas; Brown county, Illinois; South Carolina; and northeasternKentucky. Thus the type is common and its geographic range ). Long, slender point; shoulders wide or slightly barbed; stemstraight, tapering, or expanding; edges straight or concave. Somewould make good piercers for soft material, but very few could be usedas drills. A majority would be good arrowheads. Some have the edgessmooth, but if this was caused by drilling itmust have been done in enlarging holes alreadymade, since the implements so marked are verythin. The faces of the blades show no polish orsmoothness, such as might result from use asknives. The specimen illustrated (figure 254) isfrom Madison county, Alabama; others fromnortheastern Alabama and Coosa valley; Sciotovalley, Ohio; eastern Tennessee; western andcentral North Carolina; southwestern Arkansas;Kanawha valley; and Savannah, Georgia. E. Stem may be of any form; wide shoulders;never barbed; poi
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