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ished shearing the shred ends all to an even length. However, the feathers would 

 have to be worked in so as to make their plume ends come right, without trim- 

 ming. Garments of this sort of fabric were found by the Spanish invaders in 

 Peru, Mexico, and as far north as an Aztec village of sun-worshippers where the 

 city of Vicksburg now stands. 



About nine hundred specimens of Mr. Teubner's collection are arranged on 

 black oil- cloths so as to form five life-size figures, as follows : No. i, Indian with 

 battle ax, raised in the act of striking a savage blow. This figure or chart is 

 composed of i8i flint arrow and spear-heads, so arranged as to depict the Indian 

 physiognomy, costume and action with great vigor and Hfelikeness. No. 2, In- 

 dian with drawn bow and arrow, full life-size, and the Indian's redness of face, 

 even, is artistically represented by using red or coppery tinged flints, for that part. 

 This design is composed of 192 pieces. No. 3, A deer running. This is a com- 

 panion-piece to No. 2, and contains 93 flints, beside a small pair of deer horns. 

 No. 4, Indian smoking the peace-pipe. This chart contains 147 flint specimens. 

 No. 5, Indian squaw and papoose. This is the masterpiece of all; it contains 

 296 flints, so exquisitely arranged that the woman's moccasins, frilled skirt, flow- 

 ing hair, and nursing breast are perfectly represented ; the child's figure is very 

 perfect, even every finger and toe being plainly seen ; and by a marvelously skill- 

 ful use of the diff"ereut shapes and colors of the arrow-heads, an expression of glee 

 or laughter shows in the face of both mother and child as she stands playfully 

 tossing the little sucker as high as she can reach. 



The specimens of which these figures are composed were all collected in 

 Gasconade and Franklin counties, Missouri, during the years 1873-74-75, by 

 George H, King, Esq., now of Kansas City, but who was then school commis- 

 sioner of Gasconade county. He made the charts, and had them displayed in 

 the Missouri building at the Centennial exhibition at Philadelphia, 1876. Mr. 

 Teubner afterward bought them and added them to his Lexington collection. 

 He has specimens from Lafayette, Gasconade, Franklin, Pettis, Montgomery, 

 Boone, Warren and Jackson counties in Missouri, and also from the States of 

 Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, Virginia, Maryland and New York. Besides the flint 

 specimens, there are grooved stone hammers and axes weighing from twelve 

 ounces to five pounds. Two of these are of brown hematite (iron ore), almost as 

 heavy and hard as real iron. There are also stone bark peelers, skin-dressers, 

 corn-pestles, paint cups, game discs, pipes and various other tools, trinkets, 

 amulets, etc. I suppose there are two or three other larger private collections in 

 the United States than this, but I doubt if there is another one which contains 

 such a great variety of the rarest forms in ancient flint work, and so many exquis- 

 itely finished and perfect specimens. He has samples in every material I have 

 ever seen used for arrow-heads except obsidian or volcanic glass. Mr. Teubner 

 has been over twenty years making his coUection, and still pursues it with una- 

 bated zeal and perseverance, aiming ultimately to give the city of Lexington and 

 State of Missouri the honor of having both the largest and best collection of the 

 kind in the United States, outside of the Smithsonian Institution at Washington. 



