294 STOCK-IN-TRADE OF AN ABORIGINAL LAPIDARY. 



2. Twelve rudimentary ornaments of diflferent forms, brouglit into 

 shape by chipping. 



3. Three polished pieces with narrow grooves, showing that cutting 

 ■was also resorted to in the manufacture of the objects. 



4. Two hundred and ninety-five beads of more or less elongated cylin- 

 drical shape, measuring from one-fourth of an inch to three inches in 

 length, and from one-fourth of an inch to one inch in thickness. 

 Though they are polished, they exhibit but rarely a perfectly regular 

 cylinder form. Ten of them show the beginnings of holes, in most cases 

 at one end. 



5. One hundred and one round beads of a more compressed or dis- 

 coidal shape. They are from one-eighth to five-eighths of an inch long, 

 while their diameters vary from one-fourth to three-fourths of an inch. 

 They are polished, and only five of the number exhibit incipient holes. 



G. Nine polished ornaments of elongated flattish shape, showing an 

 expansion on each side (like Fig. 10). They measure from an inch and 

 one-fourth to two inches and one-fourth in length, and from three- 

 fourths of an inch to an inch and one-fourth in width across the middle. 

 One specimen is partly drilled. 



7. Two specimens of similar character, but expanding on one side 

 only (Fig. 11). They are from an inch and a half to two inches in 

 length and seven-eighths of an inch wide across the middle. 



8. One large ornament showing two expansions on each side (Fig. 12). 

 A more minute description will follow. 



9. Two small animal-shaped objects. They are about an inch long 

 and well polished. 



10. Two semicircular polished pieces, probably designed to be worked 

 into the shapes of animals. 



There are four hundred and forty-nine pieces in all. Mr. Keenan has 

 kept for himself sixteen specimens, and four bad been disposed of be- 

 fore he became the owner of the collection. One of the latter was drilled 

 entirely through. Hence the entire deposit consisted of four hundred 

 and sixty-nine objects. 



From the character of the inventory just given several inferences may 

 be drawn. 



There can hardly be any doubt that the deposit constituted the stock- 

 in-trade of some aboriginal manufacturer of ornaments of jasper, which 

 he made from pebbles of that material.* He shaped them by the oper- 

 ation of chipping before he proceeded to grinding, and he likewise ap- 

 plied the method of cutting in the manufacture of the articles. The cut- 

 ting, however, was done after the piece had been reduced to a certain 

 shape by grinding. The drilling of the beads and bead-like ornaments 

 was the final process in their fabrication. This fact affords an additional 



•According to Mr. Keenan's express statement, no jasper i^ebbles occur in the neigh- 

 borhood of the place where the ornaments were entombed. They must have been 

 brought from a distance. 



