104 REPORT ON NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1886. 



0. The specimen had beeii iouud iu a maize field in Berea, (Juyahoga 

 County, Ohio. 



Mr. T. F. Spangler, of Zauesville, i)reseuted a collection of one hun- 

 dred and nine arrow and spear heads, scrapers, etc., from the neighbor- 

 hood of Flint Eidge, Muskingum County. These specimens — good rep- 

 resentatives of forms and materials — were attached to niue serviceable 

 tablets, on which they are exhibited. 



From Mrs. D. L. Nielsen, Vermillion, Erie County, were acquired two 

 spear heads, and an object of porphyritic syenite, pertaining to the 

 class of so called bird-shaped carvings found on the farm of C. Crouse, 

 1 mile south of Birmingham, Erie County. The last-named specimen 

 is not madeiu the shape of a bird, but formed alike at both extremities. 

 {Specimens of this character are not very frequent. 



Mr. J. R. Nissley, of Mansfield, sent for inspection a small collection 

 of choice relics, some of which were reproduced in plaster in the Museum. 

 Among them is a disk of banded slate with a protuberance on each face 

 (Fig. 6). It can be easily perceived that this piece was designed to be 

 made into a ceremonial weapon by cutting out the portions above and 

 below the protuberance, and by perforating the thick part. The original 

 was found on the surface, 6 miles northeast of Sidney, Shelby County. 



Through Mr. Gerard Fowke, of Augasta, Bracken County, Ky., was 

 received a collection numbering 1,178 si^ecimens from Flint Ridge, the 

 well-known locality to which the aborigines resorted for quarrying chal 

 cedonic flint of excellent quality, and where they have left the traces of 

 their operations in the shai^e of numerous pits. Flint Eidge extends 

 throngh several counties ; but the above mentioned collection camefrom 

 Licking County. It consists of hammer-stones of flint, and quartzite, 

 cores, rude implements (more or less leaf-shaped), cutting and drilling 

 tools, and a large anvil stone. 



Some of the cores show very distinctly the facets produced by the re- 

 moval of flakes, and are the best specimens of their kind found north of 

 Mexico, which have ever fallen under my notice. 



From the Bureau of Ethnology was received a collection (snrtace 

 finds) from Butler County. It contains arrow and spear heads, hammer 

 stones, pestles, polished celts, grooved axes, pierced tablets, and a tube 

 of banded slate. 



Further: A small collection from " Cemetery Mound," JNIonut Ver- 

 non, Knox County, composed of rude stone imi)lements, bears' teeth 

 flattened on both sides and perforated with three holes, a thin semi- 

 lunar shaped object of copper (much corroded), fragments of human 

 and animal bones, and pieces of a material of chalky appearance, 

 which covered the skeleton. 



INDIANA. 



From Mr. B, W. Evermann, of Blooraington, Monroe County, were 

 received leaf-shaped implements, arrow and spear heads, a polished 



