Il8 DAVENPORT ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES. 



Scott County — Contiyiued. 



— apparently out of an already hammered bar. It is rudely 

 spoon-shaped and weighs 86 grains; the total length is 82 mm.; 

 length of blade, 22 mm.; breadth of handle, 8 mm.; breadth of 

 spoon at widest, 14 mm.; average thickness of handle, 2 mm.; 

 thickness of spoon part, i mm.; thickness of middle part of 

 spoon, ^ mm. A spot of silver occurs on one side. 



The copper beads are of thin beaten strips of copper rolled 

 up into tubes varying in size and width. 



Pottery. — Holmes 7^ speaks in general of Northern Mississippi 

 ware — dark paste, sand tempered (often granitic), rough fracture, 

 rude finish. Shapes are comparatively simple, often long, taper- 

 ing below, flat-bottomed. Ornamentation of cord impressions, 

 incised lines, and implement indentations. He also describes 

 the same Davenport specimens as Farquharson. (See 55.) 



Ring; color almost black ; fracture, dark gray ; specks of shell 

 in the paste. Well baked. The greatest diameter is i{^ inches, 

 thickness at the margin, 3^-inch; diameter of central aperture, 

 ^8 -inch; thickness at edge of aperture, ^-inch; depth of groove 

 about edge, ^-inch; width of groove, ^-inch. From the 

 groove, eight small holes pass to central aperture of pottery. 



From the Cook Farm Pratt '32 describes a curious object : — 

 Natural sandstone concretion, firmly attached and almost central 

 upon a flat, thin base-piece of light brown flint. Resembles an 

 animal with broad, flat snout. Lower part carved into a tail and 

 limbs. Eyes of bits of quartz crystal set with some kind of cem- 

 ent. Flint base much worn. 



Rondelles and post-mortem trepanation. 



{a). Rondelle cut from squamous portion of the temporal 

 bone. Found in debris of mound near Davenport (Cook Farm). 

 Circular; an inch in diameter. 



(b). Part of cranial vault from which seven circular pieces 

 had been cut. Found in mound on Pine Tree Creek, Muscatine 

 County, and alone occupied the base of the mound. 



(<;). Skull from which three rondelles had been cut. Found 

 on Allen Farm, near Davenport, at the base of the largest mound 

 in the group. (Farquharson. 5+) 



Elephant Pipe. — Farquharson 53 describes No. i with care: — 

 Soft fragile sandstone; with dark external polish; weight, 164 



