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shaped implement of rare beauty. It is polished on both sides, and all 

 its edges are nicely wrought. The perforation does not extend through 

 the stone, being only .55 inchs in depth, but sufiBcient for mounting. 

 A flint knife was deposited with the same individual, about where the 

 right hand would naturally be. 



At the northeast corner of this excavation, with some decomposed 

 bones of the other individual, a bone awl or needle was recovered, about 

 four inches in length, but a portion had been broken off. It was grace- 

 fully tapering and finely pointed. 



A few pieces of pottery obtained were of the same character as that 

 which occurs universally in this region. The crania were too fragile to 



