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ап Ohio mound, together, two handles of antler, in one of which had been inserted 
а splinter of bone and in the other a chipped stone point. 
method of fastening was not evident. 
In this case, too, the 
With this interesting tool found by us was a piercing implement of bone, and 
on the inner side of the same arm, in many fragments, were what presumably had 
been two long, slender, bone implements of some kind. 
At the left leg lay a large fragment of a bowl which had been of considerable 
size, in which were forty-seven pebbles and chips of flint and one slab of conglom- 
erate. Resting on these fragments of stone were seventeen tines of antler ranging 
in length between 1.7 inch and 3.25 inches, carefully worked down and blunt at 
each end. These probably represent a preliminary stage in the manufacture of 
handles for small tools. Professor Putnam also found together a number of handles 
of antler in connection with the tools we have referred to, though the handles found 
by him were in a more advanced state of completion than are ours. 
Under the fragment of bowl containing the handles of antler, and extending 
beyond it, we found ninety-five pebbles and fragments of pebbles, some 2 or 3 inches 
in diameter, though most of them were much smaller. With these was a mass of 
red pigment. 
Burial No. 135, adult, had a bottle at the right of 
the skull, a bowl on the upper part of the thorax, 
and three flat implements of bone with rounded ends, 
probably used in basketry,' lying parallel at the right of 
the humerus. 
Burial No. 156, adult, lay with a pot at the left 
elbow, and a scale of a gar-pike (Lepisosteus), perhaps at 
one time in use as an arrowhead, at the right of the pelvis. 
Burial No. 140, adult, had at the right elbow part of 
a tine of deer antler, smoothed exteriorly and rounded at 
each end ; also an implement or weapon of unusual form, 
of black flint, 3.9 inches in length and 1.5 inch in maxi- 
mum width (Fig. 44). At the right humerus were : three 
piereing implements of bone; part of a small stone celt ; 
about two-thirds of the incisor of a beaver; and a tine of 
deer antler worked down and hollowed at one end, prob- 
ably a tool in connection with the beaver tooth, which, 
however, was not found in place. 
Burial No. 142, adult, had at the left elbow a bottle, 
and at the right of the pelvis, a mushroom-shaped object 
x repr cpi - erl of pottery, used as a modeling tool in the manufacture 
ley Place, Ark. (Full size) of earthenware vessels. 
Burial No, 144, adult, had a shell ear-plug at one side of the head, but careful 
search failed to find its mate on the opposite side. However, at a place where so 
1 Cf. Henry W. Haynes. Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., Feb. 15th, 1893, Vol. XXVI, p. 31. 
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