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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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a half inlength, two inches and four-tenths wide, and weighsten and three-quarter ounces. It was probably haftedin a bone, horn, or wooden socket at the end of theshaft. The similarity between this implement andthat figured by Messrs. Squier and Davis, on page 211,of the Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Val-ley, is remarkable. I refer to No. 3 in Fig. 99. Itmay be that this formidable implement was used asa dagger. The beautiful spear-heads represented by Nos. 1 and2, Plate VIII., were taken from a chieftain mound nearDarien, in Mcintosh County. The remaining figuresin this plate illustrate the prevailing types of theseimplements, as they are to this day found in tumuli,ploughed up in the fields, gathered from relic-beds, orpicked up on the sites of ancient villages and open-airworkshops. It will be perceived that among the arrow-headsfigured in the accompanying plate,1 are all the varietiesenumerated by Sir W. R. Wilde, viz., the triangular y 1 Figs. 1 to 41 inclusive, Plate IX.
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AM PHOTO LiTHOCFAPHK CO NX(OSBOfiHfS PffOC£SS ) » TYPICAL FORMS OF AEROW-POLNTS. 255 the indented, the stemmed, with a tang or projectionfor insertion into the shaft—the barbed and the leaf-shaped. Nor does this catalogue embrace them all.The modifications of the one idea of arming the pointof the reed or wooden arrow with a piece of chippedflint are numerous. From a collection of more thantwo thousand, we have selected these as presentingthose forms in general use. The sharks tooth may havesuggested the shape of the indented arrow-point, andthe serration of the edges. Fossil-sharks teeth arefound in various parts of Georgia and Carolina. Theirexistence was known to the aborigines, who some-times perforated and wore them as ornaments abouttheir necks. The writer has taken them from theearth-mounds on the coast. Some of these arrow-points (Fig. 40, Plate IX.)are flat, with their edges bevelled in opposite direc-tions. The object of this arrangement was to causethe arrow, in its fli

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