COLLECTIONS FROM JACKSON COUNTY, NORTH CARO- 

 LINA. 



OBTAINED CHIEFLY FROM THE CHEROKEE INDIANS. 

 ARTICLES OF STONE. 



62953. A small di.sk of dark-gray slale, 1£ inches iu diameter ami 1£ 

 inches in thickness. The form is symmetrical and the sur- 

 face well polished. The sides are convex, slightly so near 

 the center and abruptly so near the circumference. The 

 rim or peripheral surface is squared by grinding, the circular 

 form being accurately preserved. This specimen was 

 obtained from an aged Cherokee, who stated that it had 

 formerly been used by his people in playing some sort of 

 game. It seems not improbable that this stone has been 

 used for polishing pottery. 



G2952. A small subglobular pebble used as a polishing stone for pot- 

 tery. 



G2954. A polishing stone similar to the above. This implement was 

 seen in use by the collector. 



G2947. A hemispherical stone, probably used as a nut-cracker. 



(52944. A stone implement somewhat resembling a thick, round pointed 

 pick, 4i inches in length and 1 inch in diameter. It is per- 

 forated exactly as an iron pick would be for the insertion of 

 a handle. The perforation has been produced by boring 

 from opposite sides ; at the surface it is five-eighths of an 

 inch iu diameter, and midway about three-eighths. The 

 material seems to be an indurated clay or soft slate. 



The collector suggests that this specimen was probably 

 used for smoothing bow-strings or straightening arrow- 

 shafts. 



G2949. Eight arrow points of gray and blackish chalcedony. 



G2950. Pipe of gray, indurated steatite, of modern Cherokee manu- 

 facture. 



G2951. Pipe of dark greenstone, highly polished. It is well modeled, 

 but of a recent type. 



G2888. Grooved ax of compact greenish sandstone; found near Bakers- 

 ville, K C. 



ARTICLES OP CLAY. 



Obtained from the Southern Band of Cherokees, Jackson County, North 



Carolina. 

 The manufacture of pottery, once so universally practiced by the At- 

 lantic coast Indians, is still kept up by this tribe, rather, however, for 

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