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the ring-form, a type exemplified by a large number of specimens obtained 

 from the Californian islands forming the Santa Barbara gronp. These rings, 

 composed of sandstone, serpentine, potstone, etc., vary much in size and char- 

 acter of workmanship. Some are not more than an inch and a half in diame- 



There are flat specimens not 



ter, others measure as much as five inches 



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CLUBIIEADSHAPED STONES (^). 



exceeding half an inch in thickness, while others are massive, presenting a 

 more or less compressed globular form. There is also much difterence in the 

 width of the perforations, which are, however, smooth and round in most 

 cases, though exceptionally of an oval shape. The great variety of forms 

 exhibited in these perforated objects defies all attempts to assign to them 

 anything like a definite use. The more bulky s])ecimens somewhat bear the 

 character of club-heads, and may have been employed as such." Some are 

 of a spherical or conoidal shape, and in the latter the perforation is drilled in 

 the direction of the longer axis. In many the prominent part of the periphery 

 bears the marks of rough use (Fig. 124, hornblende rock, Santa Catalina 

 Island, California; Fig. 12.5, greenstone, Santa Rosa Island, California). A 

 few of these specimens are of a flattened pear shape, the perforation running 

 in the direction of the shorter axis (Fig. 126, serpentine, Santa Rosa Island). '*' 

 The writer is not aware of the occurrence of such relics in the eastern or 

 middle portions of the United States. 



The collection in the Smithsonian Institution contains a series of globular 

 and egg-shaped stones (mostly natural formations) of suitable size to represent 



'■•It has also been suggested that tliey served as weights for digging-sticks. 



"Througli the agencj- of Mr. Paul Scluimacher the National Museum has been enriched with a large 

 number of valuable relics from the Californian islajids of San Mujuel, Santa Cruz, San yicolas, and Santa 

 Catalina, and from various points on the main-land, embraced in the Counties of San Luis 01)ispo and Santa 

 Barbara. A place called Dos Pueblos in the last-named district has furnished many remarkable objects. 

 The relics occurred in graves and on the surface. Many are evidently very old; others exhibit a more recent 

 appearance, and some of these have been found in graves with articles of European manufacture (iron 

 knives, objects of brass, beads of glass and enamel, etc.), proving that they are referable to the aborigines 

 whom the whites found in possession of those islands and the neighboring coast. It has been thought proper 

 to include these products of Indian art in the archaeological series. The islands have been totally vacated 

 by the Indians, the last of whom, ten in number, were removed, about forty years ago, to the Santa Barbara 

 mission on terra firma. A few only are now and then seen in tlie neighborhood. Mr. H. H. Bancroft men- 

 tions in his work, entitled "The Native Races of the Pacific States," the names of some of the tribes 

 formerly inhabiting the localities in question (Vol. I, p. 459, etc.). The graves of Dos Pueblos, it should be 

 stated, were also explored by Dr. H. C. Yarrow. 



