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ANCIENT MONUMENTS. 



and a half long, which was also wound around the wrist, 

 often used in battle. 



These weapons were 



Pe.stles. — A large number of implements 

 have been discovered, which have evidently 

 been used for pounding and reducing maize. 

 Fig. 118 presents examples. These weigh 

 generally not more than four or five pounds, 

 though some are much heavier. Occasionally 

 they are elaborately worked, but most are rude. 

 None of these have been found in the mounds. 

 Similar articles were in common use among 

 the modern Indians. Rude mortars of various 

 dimensions, composed of stone, were also 

 frequent. 



Implements of Bone. — Pointed or sharpened bones of the deer and elk have 

 been obtained from the ancient deposits in the mounds. Several are here repre- 

 sented, Fig. 119. They are reduced with entire regularity ; and some of them, 



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notwithstanding their decay, evince that they were originally highly polished. Nos. 

 1 and 3 were obtained from a mound in Cincinnati, and are evidently formed from 

 the tibia of the elk.* 



No. 2 was taken, together with several others, from a mound near Chillicothe, 

 (see page 178,) and measures eight inches in length. It is formed from the ulna 

 of the deer. 



Some very delicate awl-shaped instruments have been found in the mounds, of 

 which the above are full-sized sketches. They have been burned, and it is 



In the cabinet af Erasmus Gest, Esq., and drawn by H. C. Grosvenop. of Cincinnati. 



