REPORT ON THE DEPARTMENT OF ANTIQUITIES IN THE U. S. 

 NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1885. 



By Charles Eau, Curator. 



REVIEW OF IMPORTANT ACCESSIONS. 



The following is a review of the most important accessions, arranged 

 geographically : 



MASSACHUSETTS. 



E. J. Eockwood, Worcester, sent a stone carving in the shape of a 

 beaver. It is made of a gueissoid rock with small particles of black mica, 

 and was found in East Brookfield, Worcester County. The specimen 

 was lent by Mr. Eockwood, and a cast taken in the I^ational Museum. 

 (Eeceived in 1884.) 



CONNECTICUT. 



D. K Couch, Norwalk, Fairfield County,, sent a large copper spear- 

 head with broad, straight base, found in the drift of the valley of the 

 2^rorwalk Eiver. This specimen is of great interest on account of show- 

 ing not only the lamination produced by beating a piece of native 

 copper, but also, on one side, the ridges and other projections which 

 have wrongly been considered as resulting from the process of smelting. 

 (Ace. 16115.) 



NEW YORK. 



J. S. Twining, Copenhagen, Lewis County, forwarded for examination 

 a pipe of steatite of a mottled, dark grayish-brown color, which was 

 found within an old earthwork at Dexter, Jefi'erson County. A figure 

 representing a human skeleton is incised on the back of the pipe. A 

 cast w^as made in the Kational Museum. 



In the Museum collection are two pipes of similar form, found respect- 

 ively in Montgomery and Oswego Counties, New York, which bear on 

 their backs corresponding tracings of skeletons. (Ace. 16001.) 



PENNSYLVANIA. 



Dr. H. D. Moore, ISTew Lexington, Somerset County, contributed 2 

 fragments of worked brown sandstone, forming an incomplete pipe, 

 which terminates in a bear's head. It was found near isew Lexing- 



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