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A great number of beads, from one-half to one inch in diameter, 

 made frommussel shells and perforated with from one to three holes, 

 are found. The large gorgets from two to two and one-half inches 

 in diameter are also found. These are invariably perforated with 

 from one to three holes, and are made from a shell foreign to the 

 Paint Creek Valley. 



Of the implements and ornaments made of stone, the flint arrow 

 heads are very common. These are mostly made from material 

 brought from flint, ridge in Licking County. Grooved axes are also 

 found, the type prevailing is the one having the groove extend en- 

 tirely around. The perforated gorgets of slate are also found, but 

 the most interesting of the stone implements found in the pits are 

 the perforated discoidals. These are all small, varying in diameter 

 from two to three Inches, and finely polished. 



In the refuse heaps and ash pits were found the bones of the 

 animals used for food, charred corn, hickory nuts, walnuts, butter 

 nuts, acorns, hazel nuts, beans, seeds of the papaw, wild plum, 

 etc. About thirty-five per cent, of the bones taken from these pits 

 were of the Virginia deer. The bones of the black bear, raccoon, 

 elk, ground-hog, wild-cat, muskrat, squirrel, beaver, wild turkey, 

 wild duck, wild goose, trumpeter swan, great horn owl, barred owl, 

 were found in abundance. But perhaps the most interesting of the 

 animal bones found were those of the Indian dog. Skulls and parts 

 of skeletons were taken from the jiits in great numbers. Pro- 

 fessor F. W. Putnam, of Harvard University, who has been mak- 

 ing a Study of the skulls of the dog taken from the mounds and 

 burial places of Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, Ohio, Kentucky, 

 New York, and from the great shell heaps in Maine, says that a 

 distinct variety or species of dog was distributed over North America 

 in pre-Columbian times, and by comparison lie finds that the dog 

 found in America is the same variety of dog found in the ancient 

 site of the Swiss Lake dwellers, and also in the ancient tombs of 

 Thebes in Egypt, and claims that the variety of the pre-Columbian 

 dog is apparently identical with the pure breed Scotch collie of today, 

 while Mr. F. A. Lucas, of the U. S. National Museum, describes the 

 dog found in tlie Baum Village as resembling very much tlie bull 

 terrier in size and proportion, and states that the same species have 

 been found in the village sites in Texas and the old Puebloes. 



