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CYLINDRICAL PLUMMETS. 



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Figure 122 represents a piece of smoothly dressed steatite from Deslia 

 county, Arkansas, with a twotliirtLs round section, the ends rounded, 

 with a groove near one end, which may be classed with the plummets. 



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Fio. 119.— Plummet. 



Fig. 120. — Plummet, 

 end ground flat. 



Fig. 121— Plummet. 



There are pieces of sandstone from the same locality which connect this 

 pattern with the simpler "boat form"' stones, except that the flat side 



is ground smooth instead of being hol- 

 lowed. This is only one of numerous 

 -ff^l examples where the shapes of iinple- 



I; ments whose " tyiiical forms " seem ut- 

 [ terly dissimilar merge into one another 

 so gradually that no line of demarka- 

 ,ij tion can be drawn. 



Cones. 

 The relics known as " cones " have the 

 base tiat and the side curving slightly; 

 usually the curve extends regularly 

 over the top, but sometimes tlie apex is 

 Pig. i22.-Piummet, cylindrical. rubbed off flat. The couic Surface may 

 form an angle with the base, or the line of Junction may be rounded into 

 a curve. They vary considerably in thickness, some being nearly flat, 



Fig. 123.— Cone. Fig. 124.— Cone. 



others having a height ecjual to the diameter of the base. One of steatit 

 from Savannah, as also one of sandstone from Kanawha valley, has a 

 slight pit or de|)ressiou on the flat side. Among the best examples are 

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