The legs were added, the material "petrified walnut(?)."
Image from: http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/moa/apg3269.0002.001/59?page=root;size=100;view=image (the next page is the illustration of Pomperauge's Grave, Nonnewaug's Grave a couple pages after that).
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Those "pop-out" eyes must be pegs for tying the thing, instead of holes.
I was reading that one proposed function was as an atlatl handle - used on the proximal end of the stick. I propose it is the atlatl "hook" used at the distal end of the stick to hold the back end of the spear in place.
Some bird stones I came across in "google images" have those "pop eyes...
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