SMITHSOXIAN^ AECH.EOLOC4ICAL COLLECTIOK. 



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used in cmnection with them measure more than four feet in length.-" A 

 wooden INIohave mortar of the collection is not quite so lai'ge, and not cylin- 

 drical, but somewhat tapering toward the bottom. In this specimen the hol- 

 lowing by fire is distinctly perceivable. 



153 



155 



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MORTARS AND KINDRED UTENSILS (I). 



By fir the best stone mortars in the Museum have been obtained from the Cal- 

 ifornian islands and the neighljoring coast, more especially from Dos Pueblos. 

 They are made of a compact sandstone which, though of sufficient hardness 

 could be worked with tolerable ease. Some of these mortars are mere boulders 

 hollowed to the proper depth (Fig. 153, San JSTicolas Island; Fig. 154, same 

 locality) ; others have been modified to a certain extent (Fig. 155, same 



'"A drawing of an Iroquois mortar willi pestle is given in Morgan's "League of the Iroquois," Rochester, 

 1851, p. 371. 



