Note 1831 — Chapter VI · (continued 3)

Cf. G. Crook “on the Indian method of making arrow-heads” in the Smithsonian Rept., 1871, and C. C. Jones, Jr., on “the primitive manufacture of spear and arrowpoints along the Savannah River” in Ibid. 1879. A paper by Sellers in a later report is of importance. Cf. Stevens’ Flint Chips, pp. 75-85, and Schumacher in Smithsonian Report, 1873. True flint was not often, if ever, used in America, but rather chert or hornstone, and quartz, though implements are found of jasper, chalcedony, obsidian, quartzite, and argillite. Cf. Rau on the stock in trade of an aboriginal lapidary in Smithsonian Rept. (1877); and Rosny’s “Recherches sur les masques, le jade et l’industrie lapidaire chez les indigènes de l’Amérique” in Arch. de la Soc. Amér. de France, n. s., vol. i. Jade or jadite implements and ornaments have been found in Central America and Mexico, and others resembling them in northwestern America; but it is not yet clear that the unworked material, such as is used in the middle America specimens, is found in America in situ. Upon the solution of this last problem will depend the value of these implements when found in America as bearing upon questions of Asiatic intercourse. Cf. Dr. A. B. Meyer in the Amer. Anthropologist (vol. i., July, 1888, p. 231), and F. W. Putnam in the Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc., Jan., 1886, and in the Proc. Amer. Antiq. Society.