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we may draw some conclusions. In the various 
articles which constituted her ornaments there 
were no metallic substances; in the make of 
her dress there is no evidence of the use of any 
other machinery than the bone and horn needles. 
The beads are of a substance of the use of which 
for such purposes we have no account among 
people of whom we have any written record. 
She had no warlike arms. By what process the 
hair of the head was cut short, or by what pro- 
cess the deer-skins were shorn, we have no means ° 
of conjecture. These articles afford us the same 
means of judging of the nation to which she be- 
longed, and of their advances in the arts, that 
future generations will have in the exhumation 
of a tenant of one of our modern tombs, with 
the funeral shroud, etc. in a state of like pres- 
ervation, with this difference, that with the 
present inhabitants of this section of the globe 
but few articles of ornament are deposited with 
the body. The features of this ancient member 
of the human family much resembled those of a 
tall, handsome, American woman. The fore- 
head was high, and the head well formed.’” 
This constitutes what appears to be, in the 
estimation of the historian of Kentucky, the 
most valuable part of the history of the Mam- 
ibs 
