Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution .. . STEMMED FORMS The form of the stem and shoulders among perforators is often thesame as in the stemmed arrowheads, etc., pre-viously described. A. Stem usually tapering; shoulder more orless defined; never barbed; blade wide at thepart next to the stem, tapering rapidly by con- J/%cave lines to a sharp point. Probably spear- /;?? ,\points or large arrowheads with the blade | ;.worked to a point. The type, shown in figure 251,is from Kanawha valley. B. Slender point; wide wingsor shoulders; stem straigh
Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution .. . STEMMED FORMS The form of the stem and shoulders among perforators is often thesame as in the stemmed arrowheads, etc., pre-viously described. A. Stem usually tapering; shoulder more orless defined; never barbed; blade wide at thepart next to the stem, tapering rapidly by con- J/%cave lines to a sharp point. Probably spear- /;?? ,\points or large arrowheads with the blade | ;.worked to a point. The type, shown in figure 251,is from Kanawha valley. B. Slender point; wide wingsor shoulders; stem straight ornearly so; the implement hav-ing the form of a cross. Someare less than an inch long, aud \ ?P£&-° very delicately Worked, while Fiq. 251.—Perforator, stemmed. fiu. , others reach 3 inches in length, and are thick. Some stemmed, very wide ° shoulders. from Savannah have very broad stems. There is a good example (figure 252) from Ouachita county, Arkansas, and others from southwestern Arkansas;western North Carolina;and Savannah, Narrow and thic
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