334 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1896. 



Fig. 16. Ornamentation on same specimen as liy. 12. 



17. Spirals and concentric circles <'nt (intaglio) on a slab of sandstone. Eday, 



Orkney, Scotland. (Original, Museum of Society of Antiquities, Edin- 

 burgh. Simpson, Arch;eic Sculpturings, plate xix, fig. 4.) 



18. Concentric circles in pairs with interfering and joining lines. Dolmen 



d'Availles sur-Chize (Deux-Sevres), (Original in Museum of Niort. Ue 

 Mortillet, Mus('e Prehistorique, fig. 542.) 



19. Vandyke point, double, arranged in perpendicular parallel lines, with 



intermediate spaces. Dolmen, Island of Mcen. (Madsen, Antiquities 



of Denmark, plate xvi, fig. 5.) 

 21. Ornamentation of many styles, reduced tliirty-three times, engraved on 



one of the supports of the dolmen of Gavr 'Inis. (Mortillet, Musee Pre- 



histori(iue, lig. 5S0.) 

 23. Dots and circles arranged in parallel lines surrounded by incised lines, and 



all inclosed so iis to form a cartouch. Support of the dolmen of Pierres- 



Plates, Lochmariaquer (Morbihan). 



Facinjj page. 



21. Nucleus or core of beeswax flint. Flake, side and edge views. Grand Pres- 



signy, France. Cat. Nos. 136657, 146062, U.S.N.M 422 



22. Nucleus and flake of beeswax flint. Grand Pressigny, France. Cat. Nos. 



99889,136651, U.S.N.M 423 



23. Poniard of flint, finely chipped. Scandinavia. (CoUectionof Rev. Dr. Nevin, 



Rome) 428 



24. Poniards or daggers of flint, finely chipped. Scandinavia. Cat. Nos. 



101644-45, 58485, 77, U.S.N.M 428 



25. Solutroen leaf-shaped implement, white flint or chalcedony, Class A, " clas- 



sification of arrow and spear heads." Oaxaca, Mexico. Douglns col- 

 lection 428 



26. Large quartzite blade, finely chipped. Arvedsou collection, Carpenters- 



ville, Illinois 428 



27. Five large spearheads, chalcedony. Little Missouri River, Pike County, 



Arkansas. Cat. No. 150176, U.S.N.M * 429 



28. Obsidian cores and flakes from Mexico and California. Cat. Nos. (see speci- 



mens), U.S.N.M 435 



29. Twenty flint objects of curious form, none utilitarian — art for art's sake. 



Cat. Nos. (see specimens), U.S.N.M 437 



30. Two flint hatchets, (a) Chipped to form; (b) polished. Lund, Sweden. 



Cat. Nos. 101035, 100990, U. S.N.M 442 



31. Polished stone hatchet and handle combined, worked out of solid rock. Dio- 



rite ( ? ). (U. S. National Museum ) 445 



32. Three banner-stones (two broken). Cat. Nos. 42540, 17923, and 115685, 



U.S.N.M , 449 



33. Ciorgets, pendants and j^lummets or charms. Cat. Nos. 97853, 62578, 97423, 



60206, 139531, U.S.N.M 452 



34. Series of European prehistoric polished jade hatchets. (U. S. National 



Museum) 455 



35. Series of American prehistoric polished jadeito and nephrite hatchets. 



(U. S. National Museum) 455 



36. Series of polished and grooved actinolite axes and hammers, from the pueblos 



of New Mexico and Arizona. ( U. S. National Museum) 155 



37. Series of polished nephrite axes and adzes (one pectolite hammer), from 



Alaska. Many show signs of sawing. (U. S. National Museum) 456 



38. Series of nephrite bowlders and fragments thereof, Alaska, discovered by 



Lieutenant Stoney, United States Navy. The center of the plate shows 

 some finished implements. (U. S. National Museum) 456 



