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are given, Fig. 114. It is clear nevertheless, both from their form and miterial, that 

 they were not designed for use. They may be regirdad a? having baen int3ad3d 

 simply for ornament or display. No. 1 is composed of a beautiful talcose slate of 

 a greenish brown color, slightly veined with dark lines. It measures six inches in 

 length, is two inches and a half broad at the centre, and five inches between the tips . 

 No. 4 was found in South Carolina, and is composed of a dark steatite. The 

 others were found in Mississippi, and are for the most part composed of soft and 

 easily-worked stone.* 



Fla. 116. 



Fig. 1 15 is of similar material with No. 1, Fig. 1 14, is highly polished, and measures 

 six inches in length. The hole is half an inch in diameter at one end, but less at 

 the other.f 



Fig. 116 is an example of a kind of hammer or club-head of stone, it weighs 

 about two pounds. Articles of this kind are not frequent ; and none have been 

 found in the mounds. It is probable that a withe was passed around the groove 

 in the middle, and the ends firmly bound together. By this means the implement 

 might be very efficiently used as a hammer or war-club. Spherical stones are 

 often found, weighing from half a pound to two pounds. The manner in 

 which they were used is, no doubt, correctly explained by Lewis and Clarke : 

 " The Shoshonee Indians use an instrument which was formerly employed 

 among the Chippeways, and called by them pogamoggon. It consists of a 

 handle, twenty-two inches long, made of wood, covered with leather, about 

 the size of a whip-handle. At one end is a thong two inches in length, which is 

 tied to a stone weighing two pounds, enclosed in a cover of leather. At the other 

 end is a loop of the same material, which is passed around the wrist to secure the 

 implement, with which they strike a powerful blow." It is probable that the 

 pear-shaped stones represented in the above engraving. Fig. 117, were used 

 in like manner. Carver describes a weapon, in use by the tribes beyond the 

 Mississippi river, which consisted of a curiously wrought stone, enclosed in leather 

 as above, and fastened, like the slung-shot of the present day, to a thong, a yard 



* In the cabinets of B. L. C. Wailes, Esq., Washington, Miss. ; and of Rev. R. Mokuis, Mount Sylvan, in 

 the same State. 



f In the cabinet of James McBride, Hamilton, Ohio 



