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objects, ornuiiieuts aiul weapons, cup aud pitted stones, drilled tablets, discoidal 

 stones C'cbungkee"), sinkers, pendants or charms; perforators; tubes, beads and 

 pipes, shown as speciineus of aborij^inal drilliug; club heads, digging sticks, riatas, 

 mortars, and grinding stones; pestles; steatite vessels and the implements with 

 which they were made; hematite objects; agricultural or digging implements, 

 arranged in series; aboriginal sculptures; objects in shell, horn, and bone; stone 

 daggers and swords; slate knives; copper implements from the United States; 

 stone collars and zcmes from Porto Rico; stone masks, clubs, aud hatchets from 

 the West Indies; jade, tuniuoise, rock crystal from Alaska, Mexico, Central and 

 South America; obsidian from California and Mexico; gold objects and ornaments 

 from Chiriqui and Antioquia, Central and South America; plaster models of aborig- 

 inal towns and monuments helonging to Indian tribes; and, for purposes of com- 

 parison, numerous objects from the modern North American Indians were shown 

 in the glass case, duly labeled with the tribe, locality, and special point of com- 

 parison indicated. 



The collection was arranged in groups, so that a single label would comprise as 

 many objects as possible. The labels were prepared with care, printed on herbarium 

 board, aud displayed with the objects so as to be easily read by the pul)lic. 

 The collection was described in the official catalogue as follows : 

 The exhibit under this head deals with man before the dawn of history, aud com- 

 prises implements, iiteusils, and other objects found in different parts of the world, 

 and recognized as his handiwork. 



OIUECTS OF THK PALEOUTHIC OI{ (IIIl'I'KI) STONE AGE. 



A series of about sixty chipped stone objects from Europe. Asia, and Africa, belong- 

 ing to the first, the alluvial or Chelleen Period of the Age, and representing the 

 earliest accepted implements made by man. 



Objects of the second, the Reindeer or Cavern Period. 



Casts of four prehistoric human skulls, Neanderthal, Olmo, Engis, and Laugerie 

 Basse. 



Implements of stone and bone from France and England (Cresswell and Kent's cav- 

 erns, England; Moustier, Solutre, and La Madelaine, France). 



Objects from the United States, of the same form as the preceding found in Post- 

 pliocene formations aud on the surface, and believed by some students to be 

 implements of the same character as those of Europe. (Exhibited for compari- 

 son.) 



OU.IECTS OF THE NEOLITHIC OR POLISHED-.S TONE AGE. 



A series from the Old and New worlds, comprising hammers, cores, flakes, hatchets, 

 scrapers, disks, chisels, poignards, arrow- and spear-heads— polished and unpol- 

 ished. 



A collection to illustrate a classiiication of arrow- and spear-heads. 



A series of objects of stone, including ''banner stones,"' drilled tablets, and boat and 

 bird shaped stones, etc., the uses of which .are unknown, but which are supposed 

 to have been connected with ceremonies, or used as ornaments or in games. 



Objects of shell, bone, and horn. 



Copi>er imiilenients and ornaments of America. 



Gold oruanients from Central and South America. 



Bronze implements aiul ornaments from Europe. 



A collection of ornaments, knives, hatchets, and other oVijects, of jade, turquoise, rock 

 crystal and obsidian, from Alaska, Central and South America, Australia, and 

 New Zealand. 



A series of prehistoric Carib implements, including stone collars, zemds, stone 

 masks, clubs, hatchets, etc., from Porto Rico, West Indies. 



