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Mr Dewey's list is compiled from the catalogs of his own col- 

 lection in the State Museum with that made by Alva Reed. The lists 

 of George R. Mills, P. P. Barnard and Harry C. Follett have also 

 been tabulated, together with those of several other local collectors. 

 It is thus seen that the Dewey compilation is only a fragment of the 

 total. It may be taken as an average proportion of articles in the 

 total accumulation. Some exceptions in individual instances may be 

 made ; however, since earlier collectors collected mostly celts, arrow 

 and spear points, pipes and the more striking implements of bone, 

 many more arrow points, celts, and the like, may have been picked 

 up in proportion than hammerstones, bone needles, broken pipes, and 

 pottery rim fragments. The earlier collectors probably almost 

 entirely ignored the rougher hammerstones and metates. The state- 

 ment that the list is an " approximate third " must therefore be kept 

 in mind as an estimate only. It must be regarded, however, as an 

 estimate built upon a careful study covering a period of years of 

 observation ; and yet, as we have remarked, estimates are quite 

 certain to be inaccurate in some details. The list of known material- 

 follows : 



1187 Triangular points 



8 Notched arrows 



16 Spears, all shapes over 4 inches 



32 Celts 



20 Grooved stone war club heads 



21 Stone (slate) implements with worked edge 

 265 Pitted or hammerstones 



33 Metates or mortars 

 8 Pestles, broken 



40 Net sinkers, some very fine 



16 Stone disks, not perforated 



14 Stone disks perforated for suspension 



16 Stone beads 



1530 Pieces of pottery ornamented 



8 Pottery beads 



12 Pottery fragments, showing effigies ' 



12 Pottery fragments drilled 



120 Shell beads 



384 Bone awls, pointed 



72 Bone awls, blunt point 



56 Bone punches 



6 Bone arrow points 



26 Bone fish hooks 



9 Bone harpoons 

 708 Bone beads 



28 Bone pieces perforated for suspension other than beads 



