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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 j)ro- 

 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- 



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