AMERICAN INDIAN PROJECTILE POINTS/ARROW HEADS/OKLAHOMA/RARE 3 GUIDES, 1958/ $120

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AMERICAN INDIAN PROJECTILE POINTS/ARROW HEADS/OKLAHOMA/RARE 3 GUIDES, 1958/ $120 GUIDE TO THE IDENTIFICATION OF CERTAIN AMERICAN INDIAN PROJECTILE POINTS. BY ROBERT E. BELL. SPECIAL BULLETIN NO. 1, 2 & 3. OF THE OKLAHOMA ANTHROPOLOGICAL SOCIETY. THREE ISSUES, bound in ONE BOOK. Oklahoma: Society, 1958, 1961 and 1968. First Editions. Rare set.This large and thick solidly bound book contains 3 issues, each a guide to the identification of American Indian lithics, specifically projectile points. Each volume contains information (description, distribution, estimated age and cultural affiliation, remarks and source of plate illustrations) on 50 different points found in the United States. These guides are complete and without damage ad they are bound in a solid brown cloth binding. Published more than 55 years ago, a set such as this would sell for $120 or more.From the Introduction: "This guide to the identification of certain American Indian projectile points is designed to acquaint the reader with a series of projectile point types that have been identified and named by archaeologists. AS a guide it is far from complete, and there are many additional types of projectile points which are not included here; also, there are a number of distinctive forms which have not been typed. As far as I can judge, there are somewhere between 150 and 200 projectile point types that have been named in the United States; of these, only 50 are discussed here, for reasons that will be mentioned later. This publication is entirely the result of interest expressed by members of the Oklahoma Anthropological Society and other persons interested in arrowheads. It is designed to bring together available information on projectile point types for amateur archaeologists, collectors, or anyone having an interest in the subject. This information, for the most part, is scattered throughout a variety of source,s often publications of limited distribution or those obscured by a more technical language, so that it is frequently available only to the professional archaeologist. In January, 1952 a brief mimeographed article on arrowheads appeared in the Department of Anthropology Archaeological Newsletter (Bell, 1952, pp. 1-12). This included some general comments and observations plus a brief description and outlines of thirteen named point types. This paper proved to be of much general interest and our supply of copies was soon exhausted. With the organization of the Oklahoma Anthropological Society in the Spring of 1952, and the establishment of a publication series, I decided to present more data on named types in our first bulletin. With the aid of Roland S. Hall who prepared the drawings, we published a brief description of some 44 types in Bulletin I (Bell and Hall, 1953, pp. 1-16). For Bulletin II, Richard P. Wheeler of Lincoln, Nebraska prepared similar data for some eleven additional types that had not been included earlier (Wheeler, 1954, pp. 1-6). In the meantime, more knowledge of named types has become available, and many new types have been established. Other publications have presented descriptive material for regional areas (Scully, 1951; Suhm and Kreiger, 1954; Kneberg, 1956). In 1956 I planned to revise the earlier work which had appeared in the bulletin of the Oklahoma Anthropological Society by adding new material, increasing the number of examples representing the type, and supplementing the associated descriptive information..."Contents include: Standard Projectile Point Terminology; Abasolo points; Adena points; Afton; Alba; Basset; Carrllton; Catan; Clovis; Dalton; Edgewood; Eva; Evans; Folsom; Gary; Harrell; HAyes; Kiney; Lange; Langtry; Lerma; Marcos; Marshall; Matamoros; Maud; McKean; MEserve; Milnesand; Montell; Morhiss; Morris; Mtoley; Nodena; Nolan; Osceola; Pandale; Pedernales; Plainview; Reed; REfugio; Sandia I & II; San PAtrice points; Snyders; points; Talco; Tortugas; Travis; Trinity; Washita; Wells; bibliography;According to Wikipedia: "Robert E. Bell (1914 – January 1, 2006), wa... read more

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