LISTS OF SPECIMENS DISTRIBUTED. 



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Pipe.— Slate. 

 Onoudaga County, N. Y. 

 Original, No. 16567, in F. S. National Mu- 

 seum; collected by F. H. Gushing. 



Pipe.— Black chlorite. 



Fremont, Ohio. 



Cast, No. 35620, in U. S. National Museum ; 



original collected by Lewis Leppelnian. 



DISCOIDAL S TONES. 



The specimens here enumerated are not less 

 than 2 inches, and seldom over G inches, in diam- 

 eter, and show unmistakable indications of hav- 

 ing been artificiallj' worked into shape by pecking 

 or grinding. The material is usually hard, such 

 as quartz, white, brown, or yellow quartzite 

 (sometimes translucent), dark greenstone, etc. 

 Specimens of argillite and sandstone, however, 

 are not wanting. They are supposed to have been 

 used by the Indians in a g.;me called "chungkee," 

 described by Adair, DuPratz, Lawson, and other 

 early writers, and referred toby Lewis and Clarke, 

 Catlin, and writers of more recent date. They 

 are found principally in the Southern and West- 

 ern States. (Handbook, p. 654, fig. 27.) 



DlscoiD.\L Stone. — Brown jaspery quartz. 



East Tennessee. 



Cast, No. 35450, in U. S. National Museum ; 



original collected by Rev. C. Foster Williams. 



DiscoiDAL Stone.— Reddish syenite. 

 Virginia. 

 Original, No. 30234, in U. S. National Mu- 

 seum; collected by F. H. Cashing. 



STONE OBJECTS FROM THE AURIFEROUS 

 GRAVELS OF CALIFORNIA . 



These are tho enigmas of prehistoric man in 

 North America. If any reliance cau be placed in 

 human testimony, we must believe that these, 

 with mortars and similar objects, came from 

 under the lava beds and belong to the early Quat- 

 ernary, if not tho Tertiary geologic period. If 

 thus found they would seem to be the earliest 

 known implements made by man, and again thej' 

 are of the Neolithic or Polished Stone civilization, 

 and so belong to the more modern prehistoric man 

 in the present geologic period. These contradic- 

 tions must await tho investigations of the geolo- 

 gist and paleontologist as well as the archfeologist. 

 In our present knowledge it would be unwise to 

 announce any hard' and fast theory. 



Object from the Aurifekous Gravels 



OF California.— Fragment of a pestle. 



Tuolumne County, Cal. 



Cast, No. 8742, in U. S. National Museum; 



original collected by Dr. L. G. Yates. 



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Object from the Auriferous Gravels 

 OF California.— Fragment of a steatite 

 ladle. 



Tuolumne County, Cal. 



Cast, No. 8736, in U. S. National Museum ; 

 original collected by Dr. L. G. Yates. 



patu-patu or MERAI. 



This is the traditional weaijon of the New 

 Zealander. They may be made of wood, but usu- 

 ally are of hard greenstone, the jade of that coun- 

 try. They have been polished with a .species of 

 corundum found in the island. They are finely 

 and symmetrically made, must have required 

 much labor, and are valued highly. They become 

 heirlooms and are given proper names. A sword 

 knot is attached either l)y a groove or hole. This 

 specimen was given by J. B. Aldrich, who de- 

 .scribes it bj' letter from Memphis, June 25, 1883, 

 thus: "It was dug out of a mound under my 

 direction in 1866, while quartermaster. United 

 States Army. Themound was situated just south 

 of the Arkansas River, nearthe thirty-eighth par- 

 allel, in Bent County, southeastern Colorado. It 

 was tho theory of Kit Carson, who accompanied 

 the command, that it had been secreted there bj' 

 some of the Comanche or Ajiache Indians who 

 then occupied the Territory." The hole is filled 

 with a remnant of the loop, made of vegetable 

 fiber. 



Patd-Patu or Merai. 



Said to have been found in a mound. Bent 

 County, Colo. ; believed to have come 

 from New Zealand, Pacific Ocean. 



Original, No. 61959, in U. S. National 

 Museum ; collected Ijy J. B. Aldrich. 



PERFORATED STONE CLUB HEADS. 



The objects forming this series in the Museum 

 collection have been mostly obtained from Indian 

 graves and from the surface of the Santa Barbara 

 Islands and the opposite Californian coast. Their 

 material is sandstone, serpentine, soapstone, etc., 

 though specimens of harder material, such as 

 greenstone, have been found. They vary in size 

 and form, being from li to 5 inches or more in 

 diameter. There are some specimens only one- 

 half inch in thickness, while others are so thick 

 as to equal their diameter and give them a glob- 

 ular form. (Handbook, p. 655, fig. 28.) 



Perforated Stone Club Head. 



Santa Cruz Island, California. 



Original, No. 18227, in U. S. National Mu- 

 seum ; collected by Paul Schumacher. 



