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partitive chronology can be obtained or a true history of 

 the people who made them be established. 



ARROWMAKER'S AVIGWAM AT PINE GROVE. 



Communicated by Johx Robixson. 



During the latter part of September, 1882, Mr. J. H. 

 Sears and myself visited the Pine Grove reoion in Mar])le- 

 head for the purpose of examining some of the shell- 

 heaps, but finding nothing of interest in them we were 

 about to return home, when our attention was attracted by 

 numerous pieces of upturned turf", Avhere some of the 

 young relic hunters from South Salem had made random 

 diggings in search of "Indian relics." In one of the little 

 excavations we noticed numerous porphyry chips, and for 

 want of other occnpation began to dig in the vicinity, sav- 

 ing all the chi[)pings found. As we proceeded, we no- 

 ticed that the chippings were all within a few inches of 

 the surface, just beneath the turf, on an undisturbed yel- 

 low loam, and that they were all found in a band of about 

 eighteen inches in width, which was also observed to take 

 a curving shape. Continuing the work, we at last found 

 ourselves at the point at which we started, having col- 

 lected some four quarts of sharp chips of porphyry, of the 

 sort found in the neighborhood of Marblehead, besides a 

 few broken implements resembling large spearpoints. The 

 circle represented by the band of chippings was eight and 

 one-half feet in diameter, and was probably formed by 

 the old arrowmaker who occupied a wigwam of that 

 breadth, and who swept to the edges of his house the chips 

 he had made dm-ing his work, leaving for us a perfect 



