216 ANIMALS OF THE PAST 
have been found, bears any image whatsoever. — 
On the other hand, if not made by the aborig- _ 
ines, who made it, why was it made, and why 
did nine years elapse between the discovery of 
the first and second portions of the broken or- 
nament? These are questions the reader may 
decide for himself; the author will only say 
that to his mind the drawing is too elaborate, — 
and depicts entirely too much to have been 
made by a primitive artist. A much better bit — 
of testimony seems to be presented by a frag- 
ment of Fulgur shell found near Hollyoak, 
Del., and now in the United States National _ 
Museum, which bears a very rudely scratched _ 
image of an animal that may have been in- — 
tended for a mastodon ora bison. This piece ~ 
of shell is undeniably old, but there is, unfort- r 
unately, the uncertainty just mentioned as to : 
the animal depicted. The familiar legend of — 
the Big Buffalo that destroyed animals and 
men and defied even the lightnings of the 
Great Spirit has been thought by some to — 
have originated in a tradition of the mastodon — 
handed down from ancient times; but why 
consider that the mastodon is meant? Why 
