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Indian Relics. 



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Fig. 6. The youngest stage of Toruaria yet seen. Actual size between .2 

 mm. and .3 mm. 



Fig. 7. Siirface view of Tornaria considerably older than the one shown 

 in the following figure, to show the tortuous course of the ciliary bands. 



Figures 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 were all drawn by the writer from the living ani- 

 mals, at Newport, E. I., 1890. 



Abbreviations Used in the Figures. 



RELICS FROM AN INDIAN BURYING GROUND. 



BY L. BELDING. 



On the north bank of the Stockton Slough on land, of Mr. Ed- 

 ward F. Jones is an extensive Indian burying ground where hun- 

 dreds, if not thousands, of Indians have been buried, and where I 

 have, during the last fourteen or fifteen years, found some very in- 

 teresting relics, but none of them interested me as much as those 

 which were made of the adobe soil of the neighborhood, and which 

 appear to me to be unique. The burying ground is in an extensive 

 stoneless tract and substitutes for stones were made from the con- 

 venient soil, apparently by wetting, shaping with the hand, mark- 

 ing, and then baking in fire. These artificial stones were usually 

 nearly round and would weigh about a half-pound each, but there 

 was a considerable variety in size, form and marking; the latter of 

 which was probably indicative of family or individual ownership, 

 and the stones were probably used for cooking food, but they may 

 have had some connection with the burial customs of these Indians. 



Among other things found here were two perforated discs which 

 resemble a form described by Mr. Bowers and Paul Schumake, 

 and which Mr. Henshaw refers to as weights to digging sticks. 



