296 STOCK-IN-TRADE OF AN ABORIGINAL LAPIDARY. 



Fig. 3. — Polislied cylindrical* bead (undrilled). 



Fig. 4._Ycry regular and well polished cylindrical bead of a fine red 

 color (undrilled). 



Fig. 5. — Long and slender bead, appareutly not entirely ground into 

 sliape (undrilled). 



Fig. C. — Large cylindrical bead, wliicb exhibits a rather rough sur- 

 face, the traces of chipping not having been entirely removed by the 

 grinding i)rocess (undrilled). 



Fig. 7. — Small cyliudrical bead, polished, but not regular in shape, 

 and showing at one end the beginning of a hole, which forms a cylin- 

 drical cavity nearly three millimeters in diameter and two millimeters 

 in depth. 



Fig. 8. — Polished bead of discoidal shape, with incipient holes at both 

 ends. One of the holes is merely indicated by a small depression ; the 

 other forms a cup-like cavity of two and a half millimeters diameter and 

 two millimeters depth. 



Fig. 9. — Ornament of elongated flattish shape, with an expansion on 

 each side. It is unfinished, having been brought into shape by chi^)- 

 X)ing alone. 



Fig. 10. — Object of the same form ; well polished, but not absolutely 

 regular in outline. There can be no doubt that the ornaments of this de- 

 scription were intended to be drilled in the direction of the longitudinal 

 axis. A broken specimen of the collection shows the commencements 

 of holes at both extremities. 



Fig. 11. — Polished ornament of similar character, exhibiting an ex- 

 pansion or projection only on one side (undrilled). 



Fig. 12. — Large iwlished ornament of elongated flattish form, with 

 two expansions on each side. The object is irregular in outline, the ex- 

 liansions being larger at one extremity than at the other. It is three- 

 fourths of an inch thick in the middle. A longitudinal perforation was 

 doubtless intended. 



Fig. 13. — A small, flattish, bird-shaped object, made of beautiful 

 cherry-red jasper, and well polished. The wings are indicated on both 

 sides by slight grooves. 



Fig. 14. — A similar polished object of dark-red jasper, in which the 

 bird form is less distinctly expressed. Indeed, the maker may have pur- 

 l^osed to represent some quadruped. It would be unprofitable to spec- 

 ulate on the use of these two carvings. They probably were merely toys, 

 though it is not impossible that they had a totemic significance, or were 

 designed to serve as charms. They could not well be worn about the 

 person, and I doubt whether it was intended to perforate them. 



Fig. 15. — A polished semicircular piece, perhaps designed to be 

 worked into the shape of a bird ; its size is exactly the same as that of 

 the original of Fig. 13. 



* In this description of ornaments the term "cylindrical" rau3t not be taken in a 

 mathematical sense, as I merely intend to indicate by it an approximate resemblanco 

 to a cylinder. 



