st effectual weapon,both in war and chase, to which he added for closer thrusting the spear orlance and the knife or dagger. These arrows and spears, while sometimes 260 THE AMERICAN ARCHAEOLOGIST. headed with bone or wood and canes tempered hard by heating in a fire, weremostly tipped with points… … FIGS. 54, ROCK CRYSTAL POINTS. FIGS. MINUTE POINTS. themselves that gave the Tunxan arrows force have turned to dust along withthe arms that drew them; the shafts of the spear and arrow have melted inthe pitiless crucible of nature. But the stones that gave them their crueleffectiveness remain,…
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