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[boll. 60 



developed. In the eastern United States rude nodes were carved 



at opposite ends of the mass as incipient handles, and excavation of 



the bowl was already well under way before the removal took place. 



So far as observed, the quarries rarely yield evidence of any other 



shaping work than that of obtaining the rounded 



Quarry r'rorinct bodies of stoue and the partial development of some 



form of vessel. Tobacco pipes, sinkers, baking plates, 



ceremonial objects, amulets, ornaments, and images were made, 



mostly no doubt from choice bits of stone carried away for the ]^uv- 



PiG. 103. Tbf stump left by breaking off the globular lump. 



pose, or perhaps often from fragments of the thick-walled vessels 

 broken in use. 



About the quarries and in the quarry debris are many partly shaped 

 specimens rejected on account of serious defects of fracture, besides 

 many irregular fragments and masses, usually showing some defect 

 of texture, explaining their abandonment. 



Steatite is of very general distribution in eastern Canada and the 



Atlantic States and has been mined by the aborigines 



Geographical Dis- j^ numbcrless localities, especially in New England, 



ries Pennsylvania, Maryland, District of Columbia, and 



the Appalachian regions to the south. Deposits are 



found in "Wvomiug and in other States of the Great Divide. In the 



