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meadow-like expanse of low-lying ground, through which 

 trickled a sparkling spring brook, had tarried, for years, 

 an arrow-maker, shaping with marvellous skill those va- 

 ried patterns of spear-points and 'delicate tools which are 

 still gathered from the adjoining fields. Unlike locali- 

 ties of many acres in extent, where the traces of former 

 occupation are scattered throughout the whole area, and 

 indicate that manufacturing had once been in progress 

 simply by the abundance of chips, we have in this work- 

 shop-site the evidences of the toil of a single skilled 

 workman, who, in the quiet of his forest retreat, spent 

 the greater portion of a long and useful life. 



What gave zest to a pleasant hour spent here, a year 

 ago, in arch geological research was the finding of a small 

 smooth horn-stone pebble, upon one side of which was a 

 rude but unmistakable carving of a human face. What 

 may we call such objects? If worn upon the person, 

 and treasured beyond all other possessions, it became in 

 fact an idol, and so perhaps we are warranted in consid- 

 ering it. Larger and more pretentious carvings have 

 been found not far away, and these are held to be such 

 if the smaller but otherwise similar ones are not. John 

 Brainerd, while a missionary among the Indians of New 

 Jersey, recorded of one of these people that " she had 

 an aunt . . . who kept an idol image, which indeed part- 

 ly belonged to her, and that she had a mind to go and 

 fetch her aunt and the image, that it might be burnt ; but 

 when she went to the place she found nobody at home, 

 and the image also was taken away." While this, in- 

 deed, is slender evidence of the occurrence of idol wor- 

 ship among the Delaware Indians, it is of interest in 



