CLNP? #858 Found by an unknown Park visitor near Discovery- Point. Size, 40 x 17 mm.; opaline; pressure flaking; straight sides; shouldered, lenticular cross-section, pointed, base..
CLNP #859 Found on Mt., Scott by Louis J.. Hallock- at about 20 yards south of the lookout at the edge of the trail, May 8, 1953. Size 19 x 9 mm; tang missing; obsidian; pressure flaking; gently convex sides; shouldered (?).
CLNP? #860 Found by jean Cummins on lawn of former Chief Ranger residence, May 16, 1958. Size, 17 x 13 mm.; tip missing; obsidian; pressure flaking; straight sides, side notched, broad V-shaped base.
CLNP #861 Found by T. W. Broadbent on surface of traffic island in residence area, June 28,. 1958. Size 13 x 10 mm..; bifacially flaked fragment; obsidian (not illustrated).
The provenience of #860 is highly suspect,. since it was found on well tended, grassy lawn.. It is possibly a Redding subtype of the Desert Side notched Point class. Desert Side notched points occur in post-I500 A .D.
Figure 1. Tracnz~s OD pr-ojectile points found in Crater Lake Nat-only ?ar’. AprroxIma-telly full size
Deposits in northern California (Baumhof and Byrne 10519:38, 50, 57, Map 3) and through central Oregon to the Columbia river (Cressman 1956; Chart 1; Ross 1963:102). CINP #853 is probably a variant of the Gunther Barbed class of points which has a wide distribution in northwestern California and southern Oregon (Treganza 1958:14-16) #852 resembles a class of points found in the Deschutes and John Day drainage systems in central Oregon, the class consists of slender, triangular points whose only specializaiton is basalar notching. The Gunther Barbed class differs from this class in that the Giunther class is characterized by carefully shaped barbs. The opaline point, #858, falls within the size range of Cressmans Klamath Type 6D, from Level II, Kawumkan Springs, Cressman 1956: Chart 1, 414. Level II has an estimated age of 1500 to 500 BC. (Cressman 1956:463-444),. and the point may be of that age. However, pointed bases occur on specimens of a class of shouldered points that has wide distribution in Oregon., northern California and sporadically in the Basin and PIateau provinces during Protohistoric to Historic times (Creseman 1956; 1960-61; Leonhardy 1961 -Table 1; Tregana 1963 Figure 1, n) #858 is of further interest because it is the only non-obsidian tool found at Crater Lake; deposits of opaline occcur on Garfield Peak (Hans Nelson, Tempory Ranger-Geologist, personal communication).
The three specimens found in Godfrey Glen, Numbers 854, 855, 856, and the blade fragment from Garfield Peak., #857, chronologically could be quite old. The three Godfre- points fit Cressman’s Klamath Type 11; #854 is Type 11A, #856 is Type 11B The constricted stemmed point, #856, does not fit the classification, being an erratic form which is probably a single instance, but it is a product of similar technicues of manufacture and workmanship and most probably belongs in the general class represented by Type11. The class has a long chronological history and wide distribution, occurring in the earliest cultural deposits throughout the Great Basin- Plateau provinces and variants occur at every time horizon up to the Historic periond (Cressman 1942; 1956; 1960). It is unfortunate that #857 is only a fragment. It represents excellent workmanship and control of the oblique flaking technique. Oblique flaking techniques which produce parallel, narrow ribbon spalls have significant incidence in paleoindian assemblages (Wormington 1957:66, 105-7, 139) and has a widespread incidence at early time periods in Oregon (Cresswan 1947:177-179; 1956:414v 416).
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