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skull of a Virginia deer, which “had been very neatly opened to extract the 
brains" ; “ parts of the right humerus and right radius of a bull buffalo, both from 
the same animal.” 
There were many bison bones in the Wallace field, some of considerable size. 
Apart from burials were found : an awl of bone; tines of deer antlers, neatly sev- 
ered from the horn by a cutting tool; a tubular bead of earthenware, 1.5 inches long, 
5 inch thick; several pottery discs; several stone discs, none more than 3 inches 
in diameter; a large pebble worked into the form of a barrel, with a neatly drilled 
hole at one end, .6 of an inch in diameter and somewhat more than .5 of an inch 
in depth, with a considerable core remaining at the base ; numerous rude arrowheads 
and knives, of chert; small cutting implements of the same material; and a num- 
ber of chisels, each several inches in length, wrought from pebbles and having the 
original surface of the pebble still remaining in part. 
A flat pebble about one inch in diameter was picked up on the surface; another 
pebble having a length of about two 
inches was found with the skeleton of a 
child. Both are shown in Fig. 3. 
In the Wallace field was found a 
fragment of a conglomerate rock of high 
specific gravity, polished on both sides. 
Judging by the curvature of its inner 
and outer surfaces, it is evidently part of 
a large vessel. 
We know the aborigines who inhab- 
ited the vicinity of the Menard mound 
were carvers of stone of no mean ability, 
Ета. 3.—Perforated pebbles, near Menard Mound. as it was on the farm of Mr. W. N. Al 
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mond, about two miles from the mound, 
that Mr. Almond plowed up the two stone pipes and the beautiful ceremonial 
palette of stone shown in “ The American Antiquarian " ' and subsequently referred 
to by Professor Holmes? in an instructive paper. 
We visited Mr. Almond and, with his permission, dug where the disc had been 
found, but without result. 
The palette and pipes are now owned by Mr. H. L. Stoddard, of Stuttgart, Ark. 
From a low mound in the Wallace field came a quartz crystal bearing no 
groove for suspension. Father Le Petit? speaking of the Natchez Indians, describes 
their idols as figures of stone or of baked clay; also bones of big fish and bits of 
crystal; and Father Gravier tells of a bit of crystal in the Natchez temple. 
At the present time many and beautiful specimens of quartz crystals come 
from the Hot Springs, Ark. 
1 May and June, 1904, pp. 154, 155. 
2 “Certain Notched or Seallop ped Stone Tablets of the Moundbuilders," Amer. Anthropologist, 
Jan.-March, 1906. 
з French, Hist. Coll. of La., Part ІП, p. 141. 
‘ French, Hist. Coll. of La. and Fla., 1875, p. 82. 
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