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Spear points or knives of flint. Height: 3 inches. Anasazi Culture, Bandelier National Monument (New Mexico).

Flint projectile points, fastened to a wood shaft with animal sinew. The shaft is crudely sharpened at the end to prevent it from slipping off the atlatl; Basketmaker II Period, Anasazi Culture, MNA.
MNA = Museum of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff (Arizona)

Finely worked spear and arrow points made of flint, quartz, obsidian and chalcedony. Maximum length about 3.6 inches. Snaketown (Arizona), Hohokam culture, ASM.
ASM = Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona, Tucson (Arizona)