. Bulletin. Ethnology. pip >fo^'2?]'*' JOHN H. KERR RESERVOIR BASIN- -MILLER 117 Afton points, named from examples found by Holmes (1901, p. 246) in a ceremonial spring near Afton, northeastern Oklahoma, are characterized as large-sized projectile points with an "almost rec- tangular body, an abrupt triangular point, a wide, square base, and concave lateral margins. The points are rather wide and ; They can be further characterized as having prominent barbs, with an expanding base, and sides roughly parallel to the squared base sur- mounted by a triangular-shaped point, the w
. Bulletin. Ethnology. pip >fo^'2?]'*' JOHN H. KERR RESERVOIR BASIN- -MILLER 117 Afton points, named from examples found by Holmes (1901, p. 246) in a ceremonial spring near Afton, northeastern Oklahoma, are characterized as large-sized projectile points with an "almost rec- tangular body, an abrupt triangular point, a wide, square base, and concave lateral margins. The points are rather wide and ; They can be further characterized as having prominent barbs, with an expanding base, and sides roughly parallel to the squared base sur- mounted by a triangular-shaped point, the whole presenting an angu- lar outline that is very prominent. Points fitting this description have been found not only in the reservoir but in the Ohio Valley as well. They occur in prepottery horizons and "may be assigned an age of several thousand years" (Bell and Hall, 1953, p. 7). Holmes suggested that these "spear points of unique form, very probably were made especially for sacrificial purposes," for they were not numerous in the spring deposit. Some showed that they were freshly resharpened along the edges, as there was a distinct color differential showing in earlier darker original chipped surface and the neAver, brighter, rechipping. A number of medium-sized, stemmed projectile points, ranging in length from 40 to 45 mm., in width from 23 to 38 mm., and in maximum thickness from 7 to 10 mm., are characterized by having a well-formed parallel-sided stem with straight or concave base, the concavity of which is never very deep. They are thinned by the removal of one. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology. Washington : G. P. O.
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