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river when the peculiar cutting of the hole, which I at first thought an accident, 

 attracted my eyes, and I found the stone was cut by some being human with pains, 

 which no one at this day can tell us distinctly of, to be perhaps* the cover of 

 some vessel or a weight for a fishing net. But a dozen steps farther on I found 

 a stone about the size of a base ball, perfectly round but with a groove half an 

 inch deep running around its widest circumference, giving it a singular symmetry. 

 This was probably used either for a net-sinker or a sort of pestle. A symmetrical 

 stone, hard, smooth and shuttle shaped, about two inches in diameter and nine 

 inches in length was the next rind, and with it an old fragment of granite cut into 

 a pestle, which any apothecary of our own day would recognize as a sign manual. 

 The granite one was made with a top cut probably to the shape of the hand, with 

 a rim to prevent its sHpping from the grasp, and a macerating end tapering to a 

 larger diameter. I consider this was an ancient relic, because of its chipped 

 edges, worn away by grinding in a mortar as hard as itself. 



Bits of bone and small smooth pebbles, nearly of uniform size, a trifle small- 

 er than the silver half dimes, lie scattered about in many places among the sage 

 brush. Occasionally also a perfect and symmetrical stone head is discovered. 

 These three are parts of necklaces, the larger stone beads being worn by the 

 warrior as bears' claws and teeth are now worn by the Sioux and kindred na- 

 tions; the smaller bone beads by the women. I saw in a valuable and intensely 

 interesting collection of these relics of ancient art, pride and utility, which are in 

 the possession of Capt. J. H. Kunzie, three fine complete necklaces of polished 

 stone beads, of various symmetrical shapes — found, oblong, cylindrical, square, 

 and some of the beads weighing two ounces each. In the same collection are 

 also necklaces of long, white, needle like shells, by common appellation "wam- 

 pum," the money of the aborigines. 



Several fine old stone mortars are also in the collection of Capt. Kunzie. 

 One is of gray granite, handsomely fluted around its outside surface, a broad 

 bead or band as its top, and its bowl symmetrical and smooth. Another, proba- 

 bly made from stone which crops out near the place where it was found, was 

 probably made by later tribes in imitation of the old vessels, which in nearly 

 every case are made from rock which cannot be found upon the banks of the 

 Columbia in a thousand miles of travel, and which is not known to our geology 

 west of the Blue Mountains, except in such cases as the present, where it has 

 been brought to the sand of the Columbia by tribes from the eastward. The 

 Umatillas have a tradition that these people were of the Crow nation. In the 

 memory of the oldest Umatillas the implements and ornaments mentioned have 

 not been used by the tribes on whose lands they are found. The Umatilla, Was- 

 co, Klickitat and many other tribes, barter arrows and spear-points of beautiful 

 shapes, and colors to vie with the agate, yet not one of them can tell how or by 

 whom they were made, and the art is lost. 



A word about the most wonderful discovery in this ancient Golgotha, which 

 was unearthed by the gale of March 28th, and found by Master Seymour Kunzie. 



Upon a first examination it strikes one as an Assyrian or Egyptian carving. 



