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Thomas Wilson (U. S. National Museum) gave a collection of bone, 

 stone, and shell implements, embracing hammers, rude pieces of worked 

 dint, chips and flakes, leaf-shaped implements, scrapers, arrow-points, 

 perforators of stone and bone, fragments of pottery, and valves of 

 unios from Hahn's held, oue mile east of Newton, Anderson Township, 

 Ohio, on site of mounds 1, 2,3, and 4, Group C, Metz Exploration; 

 <J4 specimens. A rude chipped implement, found in the surface of an 

 ancient cemetery at Sand .Ridge, Anderson Township, Ohio; five rude 

 chipped implements, found 12 to 20 feet below the surface in the gravel 

 drift of the Little Miami River, at Loveland, Clermont County, Ohio. 

 (Accession 21238.) 



Also a large collection from Flint Ridge, Licking County, Ohio, con- 

 sisting of flint cores, flakes, rude implements (so-called turtle-backs), 

 small leaf-shaped implements, arrow and spear points, hammers, a rude 

 maul, polished stone hatchets, notched implement, Hakes retouched 

 with intent to deceive, and a number of specimens showing crystals; 

 L029 specimens in all. (Accession 21351.) 



Mr. James C. Wright, of Fredonia, Licking County, Ohio, an enthusi- 

 astic but careful collector of prehistoric arclneologic specimens, was 

 reported to me as being the owner of a statue of a bear, found at the city 

 of Newark. I wrote to him a letter of inquiry, and our correspondence 

 resulted in the following letter: 



I send you by mail to-day a cast of the stone bear, as requested. It is owned by nie 

 and has been in my possession ever since it was found. The stone bear was taken 

 from a mound in the city of Newark, this county, in the year 1881, being found 4 feet 

 below the surface, associated with human bones. There is no doubt of the genuiue- 

 uess of this relic, as there are a number of persons who saw it at the time it was 

 Ion ud. Mr. Jacob Holler, a day laborer, was the tinder, and I purchased it of him 

 soon after. 



1 had heard of this find while on a visit to the city of Newark, and 

 bad seen a cast. It was then called the stone bear, and was continually 

 spoken of as such. Upon receipt of the cast T recognized at a single 

 glance that it was not the statue of a bear, but intended to repre- 

 sent a human form clad in bear's skin, the head being brought over the 

 crown and serving as a sort of head dress, after the fashion of a lion's 

 skin of Hercules and Alexander. In the illustration (Plate VTH), the 

 photograph has been taken of the cast, showing front and profile views. 

 1'lie subject has been conventionally treated, 'flic entire head of the 

 bear is represented on the top of. the head of the man in such way as to 

 show the entire skull of the bear and not the skin alone, while the arms 

 of the m, m appear inserted within the skin of the fore legs of the bear, 

 flic appropriation of the skin of the beast which had been slain by 

 the hunter who had shun it, as a trophy of his skill and prowess, is a 

 custom prevailing in all countries and ages, the beginning of which is 

 lost in antiquity. Its survival into modern times and in civilized so- 

 ciety is shown by the same use ol tin' brush of the fox, the scalp of the 



