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signed to serve some unknown purpose of Indian domestic econ- 

 omy, or coflveaience in war or the chase. This, it may be assumed, 

 was used without any handle attached to it, whatever may have been 

 the purpose to which it was applied. 



The fourth copper instrument is a knife or dagger upwards of 

 seven inches in length, including the narrow end for insertion in the 

 haft ; and the fifth, which is here figured, is a spear head, rudely 



hammered out of the native copper, and presenting unmistakeable 

 evidence of its having been brought to its present shape by the ham- 

 mer, and entirely without the agency of fire. After being wrought, 

 by means of the hammer, into the rude form of a spear-head, the 

 broad end has been overlapped as shewn in the wood-cut, and 

 roughly hammered to the desired shape, so as to provide it with a 

 short narrow prolongation intended to fit into a handle, or to be 

 secured to it by means of a cord or ligature, though it must have very 

 imperfectly answered the purpose. This spear-head is of consider- 

 able thickness, and not much corroded. It is still pointed, and toler- 

 able sharp on both edges ; and, imperfect as it seems, was probably a 

 weapon of no slight importance and value among the braves in olden 

 times. 



In addition to these weapons and implements of copper, I have in 

 my possession a small pipe mouth-piece, found along with them, 

 measuring an inch and a quarter in length, made of the celebrat- 

 ed Indian red pipe-stone ; and also a miniature clay mask, figured 

 here, (though with less minute accuracy, than would have been desir- 

 able,) about one half the diameter of the original. 

 It is in some respects a tolerably fair representation 

 of the Indian skull, from which one might fancy it 

 | to have been copied. In its shape it struck me as 

 resembling the appearance presented by the skulls 

 foundinthe same place ; and the hollow sockets of the 

 eyes, though doubtless designed only to imitate the 

 Indian masks, were assumed, on its being first found, 

 to prove that it was meant as a representation of the 

 bony structure of the head, and not the fleshy or living subject. This 



