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Title: Antiquities of the southern Indians, particularly of the Georgia tribes
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Jones, Charles C. (Charles Colcock), 1831-1893
Subjects: Indians of North America Indians of North America
Publisher: New York : D. Appleton and Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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d.Among the Carolina Indians Lawson observed in1701 long arrows headed with pieces of glass, whichthey had broken from bottles. They had shajDedthem neatly, like the head of a dart, but which waythey did it I cant tell. 2 It is not improbable thatthis historian mistook the material of which thesearrow-points were made. The resemblance betweensome varieties of quartz, or obsidian and glass, is soclose, than an error may thus have occurred in the ob-servation. We know that the Indians of Californiasometimes make arrow-heads from old glass bottles,and Captain Cook states that the New-Zealandersfound means to drill a hole, with jasper, through apiece of glass which he had given them, so that it mightbe suspended as an ornament from the neck. It maybe, therefore, that the remark of Mr. Lawson is entirelycorrect. Without multiplying these historical references, it 1 Memoirs of Lieutenant Henry Timberlake, pp. 61, 62. Londou, 1765.3 Lawsons History of Carolina. Reprint, p. 99. Raleigh, 1860.
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LAEGE SPEAE—HEAD. 253 is evident that, at the period of our earliest acquaint-ance with the Southern Indians, the bow and arrowwere in general use, constituting, in the hands of thenatives, an indispensable, effective, and deadly weapon.Appreciating the vast numbers of arrow and spearheads which, during the lapse of many centuries, musthave been manufactured and expended by these peo-ples in hunting, fishing, in their games and in frequentwars, we are prepared fully to understand why theseflint implements are found in such quantities, and whythey should form the most common proof of the formeroccupancy of the soil by the red-men. The largest spear or lance head we have seenwithin the geographical limits of Georgia, was obtainedin a grave-mound which stood upon the point of landformed by the confluence of the Etowah and Ooste-naula Rivers. It is nearly fourteen inches in length,and three inches and a quarter in width—weighing twopounds and two ounces, avoirdupois. (See Fig. 1, Plat

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