62770. A small grooved ax, formed of a coarse textured stone, resembling
diorite. It is 4-1/2 inches in length and 2-1/2 in width. The head is
rounded and the cutting edge much battered. The groove is wide and
shallow, and the bordering ridges prominent. The blade thins out quite
abruptly. Presented by J. B. Emert.
62772. A celt 6-3/4 inches long, 2-1/2 inches wide, and 1 inch thick.
The material is a compact, blue-gray, banded slate. The sides are
straight and a transverse section is somewhat rectangular. Both edges
are sharpened, and are very neatly beveled and polished. Presented by
W. P. Mitchell.
62771. A small celt of compact greenish slate; one face is flat, the
other convex. It is neatly made and perfectly preserved, the broader
end being oblique and sharp. It is 3-1/8 inches in length.
62777. A rude, much-battered celt of coarse sandstone or diorite. It is
4 inches in length by 2 in width near the cutting edge. The top is
somewhat conical.
62774. A large unsymmetrical celt made of coarse yellowish sandstone;
one side is much battered. The cutting edge is round and dull. It is
9 inches in length by 5 in width near the broad end and is 1-1/2
inches thick.
62785. A knife-blade-shaped object, apparently a fragment of a winged
ceremonial stone. The whole surface is smooth and shows no evidence of
use. It is made of fine-grained gray slate. It is 2 inches in length
by five-eighths in width.
62775. A bell-shaped pestle made of yellowish gray quartzite. The
surface has been evenly roughened by picking, but has become slightly
polished on parts most exposed when in use. The base part is
subrectangular in section, and the bottom is slightly but evenly
convex. The upper part, which has been shaped for convenient grasping
by the hand, is evenly rounded at the top. Height, 4-1/2 inches;
width, of base, 3-1/2 inches.
62766. A well-formed globe of gritty sandstone. The surface is roughened
or granular. It is 2-1/2 inches in diameter.
62789. Portion of an oblong hammer stone, 4 inches in length by 3 in
diameter in the middle part. One end has been much reduced by use.
It is made of some dark, much decomposed, crystalline rock.
62768. Asymmetrical sandstone ring, 2 inches in diameter and
three-fourths of an inch in thickness. The perforation is about
five-eighths of an inch in diameter. The surface is roughened by
picking.
[Illustration: Fig. 129.]
62767. A symmetrical, neatly finished disk of light gray quartzite.
It is 4-1/4 inches in diameter and 1-1/4 inches in thickness at the
circumference, and less than 1 inch thick at the center.
62869. An hour-glass shaped tube made of gray hydro-mica schist, which
resembles very compact steatite. It is 5-1/2 inches long, 2 inches in
diameter at the widest part and 1-1/4 inches at the narrowest part.
The most restricted part near the middle is girdled by a ridge or
ring, on the circumference of which seventy or eighty shallow notches
have been cut.
The perforation is much enlarged at the ends, giving cup-like cavities.
The walls are thin near the ends and quite thick near the middle, the
passage being hardly more than one-quarter of an inch in diameter. The
markings on the inside indicate that the excavation has been made by a
gouging process, rather than by the use of a rotary perforator.
[Illustration: Fig. 130.]
62776. A boat-shaped ceremonial stone of banded slate, 3 inches long,
1 inch wide, and 1 inch deep. From the side the outline is triangular,
the two lines of the keel forming almost a right angle. From the top
the outline is a long, pointed oval, as seen in the illustration,
Fig. 131.
[Illustration: Fig. 131.]
The trough-shaped excavation is more rounded in outline, and is
three-fourths of an inch in depth. Perforations have been made near the
ends of this trough; these seem to be somewhat abraded on the outside by
a cord of suspension or attachment which has passed between them along a
groove in the apex or angle of the keel.
[Illustration: Fig. 132. 62868]
62868. An amulet or charm of dark-greenish rock, probably a serpentine,
carved to represent a bird's head. The more highly polished parts
are quite dark, while freshly cut lines are whitish. The head is
graphically represented, the bill, the eye, and nostril being well
shown. A stand-like base takes the place of the body of the bird.
Around this, near the bottom, a groove has been cut for the purpose of
attaching a string or securing a handle. In dressing the surface some
implement has been used that has left file-like scratches. Fig. 132
represents this object natural size.
62773. Fragment of a stone disk or wheel that has lines cut upon it
resembling in arrangement the grooves of an ordinary millstone.
Diameter, 6 inches; thickness, 2 inches. This is probably not an
aboriginal work.
[Illustration: Fig. 133. 63186]
63186. A banner-stone of unusual shape, made of gray slate. The cut,
Fig. 133, represents this object three-fourths natural size.
The perforation is one-half an inch in diameter, and is quite
symmetrical. The entire surface is well polished.