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holes were drilled, unless it was with a view to ornamentation. From a mound 

 in Henderson County, Illinois. Presented by Mr. M. Tandy.* 



The specimens figured next are of rather heterogeneous shapes, but have 

 the groove in common. 



Fio. 295. Florida. (30120). Fio. 296. Florida. (30119). Flo. 297. Ohio. (7247). Fio. 298. Ohio. (7790). 



All . 

 FIGS. 295-298. Stone sinkers. 



Fig. 295. This object, consisting of a dark-colored serpentine-like material, 

 is of regular outline, and polished. The part above the groove has a conoid form. 

 It was found in Manatee County, Florida, and sent by Mr. J. P. Wall. 



Fig. 296. A specimen derived from the same locality, also presented by Mr. 

 Wall. It is of a very graceful, slender form, contracting below the groove, and 

 terminating in a conoid above it. The surface is beautifully polished, and 

 entirely free of scratches and other marks indicative of use. The material is 

 like that of the original of Fig. 295. 



* This mound, located a mile and a half from Dallas City, in Hancock County, Illinois, is remarkable for 

 the abundance of human remains and artefacts it contained ; but having been dug into by different parties, a 

 minute record of the manner of their disposition is not extant. More than a hundred skeletons are said to have 

 been inclosed in this mound ; a tree, twenty inches in diameter, had spread its roots among the bones, and impeded 

 the operations, until removed. The bodies, all belonging to adults, had been placed closely together, as it 

 seemed, in a doubled-up position. Curiously enough, many of the skulls exhibit a small round perforation in 

 one of the temporal bones, generally the left; and several skulls were found with a flint perforator sticking in 

 the aperture, and evidently driven into the head after death, perhaps in pursuance of some superstitious motive. 

 Across the mound, from east to west, a streak of ashes and charcoal was noticed. The east side of the mound 

 inclosed a grave made of stone slabs, and containing a skeleton stretched out at full length, with the head to the 

 south. In this grave were found two sinkers and a shell. The relics taken from this mound consist of sinkers of 

 stone and iron ore (sixteen in number), arrow and spear-heads, pipes, beads, and other ornaments of shell, perfor- 

 ated teeth of animals, bone awls, and fragments of hematite, lead ore, copper, deer and elk-horn. It is probable 

 that the burials in this mound belong to different periods. Many of the relics here found were presented to the 

 National Museum by Mr. M. Tandy, of Dallas City, and others who had exhumed them. 



