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bammer-stones, pit-stones, grindiug-stones, cup-stoiies, 8tone slabs with 

 inortar cavities, jwlisbed celts, small hematite celts, grooved axes, dis- 

 coidal stones, gaming disks, pierced tablets, ceremonial objects, tubes 

 (one with a flattened and enlarged mouth-piece), stone pipes, bone per- 

 forators, bone beads, bears' teeth (notched or drilled), shell beads and 

 other ornaments of shell, and a number of copper wristlets. This col- 

 lection contains many good specimens. 



The Bureau of Ethnology also delivered a collection from "Cemetery 

 Mound," on Smith's farm, Kanawha County, embracing chijiped celts 

 (some with polished cutting edges), arrow and spear heads, hammer- 

 stones, pit-stones, pestles, polished celts (some of hematite), grooved 

 axes, stone disks, pierced tablets, fragments of ceremonial objects, paint- 

 stones, a stone pipe, perforated bears' teeth, and a number t)f unmodi- 

 fied Cnio-shells. 



NORTH CAROLINA. 



Dr. J. M. Spainhour, of Lenoir, Caldwell County, contributed a speci- 

 men of brown hematite from Caldwell County, in the form of an eg;g; 

 with truncated smaller end. Such specimens may have been the heads 

 of skin covered war-clubs, like those still or lately in use among certain 

 Indian tribes; but it has also been suggested that they were nsed in 

 some game, or perhaps as targets to be shot at with blunt arrows for 

 the sake of practice. Placed upright on a pole, they would fall down 

 when hit by a missile. 



AL ABASIA. 



From the Bureau of Ethnology : A small collection from a stone grave 

 near Guntersville, Marshall County, namely, split and polished bear's 

 teeth pierced with two holes in the middle, a strijig of small drilled 

 canine teeth, and spool-shaped objects of copper. 



MISSISSIPPI. 



From the Bureau of Ethnology was received a collection from a group 

 of mounds and graves, inclosed by an embankment and ditch, in Union 

 County, containing rude chipped implements, arrow and si)ear heads, 

 scrapers, a large flint digging tool of oval form, hammer-stones, pit- 

 stones, stone slabs with mortar cavities, polished celts, stone disks, 

 beads (of stone), an unfinished ceremonial object, fragments of a stone 

 pipe, shell beads, bone perforators, land-turtle shells {Cistudo clausa 

 Lin.), fragments of pottery, charred hickory nuts, part of a brass pen- 

 dant, a curiously patched ornament of brass (four-sided and pierced), a 

 thin plate of silver with the arms of Castile and Leon stamped on it, 

 and fragments of human skulls and bones. 



OHIO. 



A fine boat-shaped object of banded slate, flat on one side and pierced 

 with two holes, was presented by Mr. U. C. Duvall, of Washington, D. 



