108 REPORT ON NATIONAL MUSEUM, - 1886. 



(polished), a large quartz crystal, a bone perforator, aud fragments of 

 animal bones from a mound in Pulaski County. 



OREGON. 



Mr. Charles Aldrich, of Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa, pre- 

 sented a well-shaped stone pestle with a ring-like projection below the 

 tapering end. It was found near Grant's Pass, Josephine County, Ore- 

 gon. 



ARIZONA. 



Mr. J. H. Carlton, of Pima, Graham County, presented a flake of chal- 

 cedony, arrow-headSj hammer-stones, grooved axes, mauls, rubbing- 

 stones, a metate, a i)estle, a small mortar, arrow-shaft straighteners, a 

 polishing-stone, a pebble for smoothing pottery, a small paint muller, 

 an anvil-stone of cylindrical form, a conical stone pipe, a pierced stone 

 disk, shell ornaments, quartz crystals, a piece of unworked turquoise, a 

 clay bowl, and fragments of pottery. The objects were all found in 

 Graham County. 



NEW MEXICO. 



Mr. E. W. Nelson, of Springerville, Apache County, Ariz., sent a col- 

 lection from ruins on the headwaters of the San Francisco Eiver, New 

 Mexico, consisting of stone perforators, grooved axes, mortars, a pestle, 

 a grindingstone, rubbing-stones, arrow-shaft straighteners, perforated 

 cylindrical paint-stones, rock crystals showing use at the apex, frag- 

 ments of red and green mineral paint, stone carvings in human and 

 animal forms, bone awls, a bone whistle, pendants and beads of stone, 

 shell and pottery, including one of turquoise, and two human skulls. 

 The most remarkable piece in this collection, however, is a sandstone 

 slab, nearly square, with rounded corners, upon which is carved in 

 relief a rather conventional figure of a turtle. It is represented in Fig. 

 15. 



From the same and the same locality, hammer-stones, grinding-stones, 

 pestles, grooved axes, paint mortars aud mullers, " tanning-stones," 

 one-half of a stone disk, fragments of a stone plate with many bi-conical 

 perforations, a stone carving representing the head of a coyote, a stone 

 carving in the shape of an owl, stone tubes and pipes, a small arrow- 

 head, twenty-four flat j)ierced pendants of turquoise, two of which are 

 represented in Figs. 16 and 17, a number of fragments of turquoise- 

 pendants, bone perforators, fragments of a bone spear-head, a bear's 

 claw, shell beads and other ornaments of shell, a truncated marine shell 

 (Agaronia testacea Lam.), a small brass bell, a nugget of native copper, 

 a piece of graphite, and pieces of red and green mineral paint. 



ALASKA. 



Mr. J. U. Johnson, of Fort Alexander, presented a spear-head-shaped 

 knife-blade oi slate, two polished celts, and three adzes from Alaska. 



