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COLUMBIAN HISTORICAL EXPOSITION AT MADRID. 



ried home to be finished. The oblong or oval form, with projecting ears for the 

 handles, prevails in the Eastern United States, while the larger round and more 

 perfectly finished vessels are more frequent on the Pacific Coast. 



Stone picks for steatite quarrying (fig. 48). Some were grooved for a handle, as the 

 ax, while others were held in the hand. Both were used in mining steatite and 

 in the manufacture of vessels. The material was soft and easily worked, and 

 the traces of the pick poin-ts are plainly to be seen on the partially completed 

 vessels. The grooved picks were peculiar to the Atlantic Coast. 



177 



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Fig. :57. 



STONE PIPES. 



Mounds in Ross County, Onio: 177, platform or &quot;monitor&quot;; 178, Indian (?) head and head dr 

 with man s head); 183, red sandstone, ^ human head and body); 184, chlorite, (wolf). (?) 



179, beaver; 182, porphyry, (bird 



Collection of 69 specimens from Warren County, Ohio, consisting of finely chipped 

 spearheads, daggers, knives, leaf-shaped implements, perforators, etc., of flint, 

 principally from Flint Ridge; carved stone pipes, bird and boat shaped objects, 

 perforated tablets, sinkers, pendants or charms of stone and hematite, small pol 

 ished hematite hatchets, and copper spool-shaped objects. Exhibited by Mr. 

 Warren K. Moorehead, of Xenia, Ohio. This collection is especially valuable, as 

 it comes from one locality and represents one phase of aboriginal culture. 



Hematite objects. Hematite is the anhydrous sesquioxide of iron. It was variously 

 employed by the aborigines. They worked it as they did stone, and gave it a 

 high polish. It served for grooved axes, polished hatchets, sinkers, pendants, 

 or charms, and for muller and paint stones. 



