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KEPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1896. 



The forms of this imi)leraent are varied. Fig. 107 represents one of 

 these objects apparently at the other end of the series, wliile there are 

 others of intermediate form. This one is flat, thin, not hollowed out, 

 is narrowed in the middle and widened at the ends, and has its two 

 holes drilled close together. Many of these objects are of hard stone, 

 like syenite, greenstone, etc., while a limited number are of galena. 

 Their general purpose seems to have been as an ornament of some 

 kind, Avhicli, with their symmetry, execution, iinish, and the difficulty 

 in accomplisliing all these, entitles them to be classed among objects 

 of line art. 



Fi<;-. 107. 



BOAT-SHAPED Oli.IECT ( .') OP I'ECULIAK FORM, SLATE. 



Indiana. 



Cat. I\'o. 98(1511, r.S.N.M. }., natural size. 



Gorgets and pendants. — These were also objects of ornament and cere- 

 mony. Most of them are of slate, thin, not difBcult to make, nor yet 

 particularly beautiful Avhen made. Others, however, either from their 

 material or otherwise, become more difficult and have certain orna- 

 mentation, and should not be omitted from among decorative art 

 objects. The difference between the gorget and pendant seems only 

 to have been in the number and position of the holes. A gorget might 

 have been fastened upon the arm as an ornament, while a pendant, 

 unless very small, could scarcely be, though both may have been sus- 

 pended from the neck and worn on the breast. 



riate 33 re])resents five of these objects, the sixth being of hematite and 

 passing under another denomination. The first (No. 130531, U.S.N.M.) 



