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varies but little from half an inch. Another, of a double hatchet 

 form, is from the east end of the same lake, and is made of a porous 

 bluish white stone, slightly banded. There are notches on one edge, 

 and the orifice is finely drilled, being smallest midway. 



A handsome fragment is from Onondaga Lake, where it was 

 found in 1877. The material is bluish striped slate, very smooth and 

 thin. The broken edge, which was along the perforation or nearly 

 so, has been smoothed, and a small hole drilled in the upper corner, 

 placed there for its later suspension. It might be called the butter- 

 fly pattern, and the original size was six inches in width and three 

 and one half in depth. The thin wings continue very uniform in 

 diameter till the central ridge is reached. Another, of similar form, 

 but thicker, and made of purple and green slate, is from the same 

 lake, and is finely drilled. It was originally five inches wide and 

 two and one quarter deep. 



One of these, made of polished greenstone, is from the Seneca 

 River, and is two and one eighth long by one and five eighths 

 inches wide. The orifice, however, is so small as to make it doubtful 

 whether it may not originally have been the stem of a large plat- 

 form pipe, recut for an ornament after being broken. It seems 

 best adapted for such a purpose. Many of the heart shaped forms 

 might be described. 



An unfinished one, much like Fig. 192, is from the Seneca River, 

 and a little broken; it is of greenstone and angular and thick, being 

 about six and one half inches long and one and three eighths deep. 

 A similar one, unfinished and picked all over, is from the same 

 river, together with the next two. It is large and thick. One of 

 the others is nicely picked and ready for grinding, except in being 

 unperforated. It is of greenish grey sandstone, and the oblique 

 wings are brought nearly to an edge. It is conspicuously 

 thickened in the center, and the wings are at an angle 

 suggesting those of a windmill. It was found in 1883, and is 

 six and three fourths by two and one half inches. The other is of 

 the same general form, but deeply indented above and below, and is 

 of light brown sandstone, picked and partly ground. It is eight and 

 one fourth inches wide. All these unfinished banner stones have a 



