THE DELAWARE INDIAN AS AN ARTIST. 



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have found fragments of twenty in one day, and this more than 

 once ; hut they are not, I think, found in the ordinary clustered 

 graves of the Indians. In single graves, with other odd forms, 

 they have occasionally been found. Fig. 2 is perforated at the 

 middle, and so was intended to be attached to a handle. As a 

 baton-head it would be an attractive object, and, if the staff was 

 further decorated with bright feathers and other trinkets, the 

 whole would be very effective in dance or parade. But what be- 



Fig. 6. Stone Ornament representing Human Face. Susquehanna Eiver, Pa. 



came of them all in the days of the first European settlers ? 

 Could it be possible they were still in common use, and yet not 

 one writer make mention of them ? 



But, besides symmetrically shaping stone into ornamental 

 forms, the Delaware Indian was given to ornamenting the smooth 

 surfaces of objects by series of lines and dots, in such regular 

 manner that the eye is pleased. A simple example of this phase 

 of ornamentation is shown in Fig. 3. This is a common gorget, 

 the outline of which is purely fanciful. But it is rendered more 

 attractive by parallel and oblique lines, arranged in a manner that 

 suggests not so much hap-hazard fancy as the highly conven- 



