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1883, ] LLO (Phillips. 
Brown University, Providence, R. I 
This cabinet was begun in 1872. The specimens, which are numerous 
but whose exact number is not known, are arranged for the present typi- 
cally. In most cases they are labeled with the name of the place where 
found, 
Davenport AcApEMY or NATURAL Scrmncus, Davenport, Towa. 
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This cabinet was formed during the last ten years from finds in the 
vicinity of fifty miles of the city. The pottery ismostly from the mounds of 
the Lower Mississippi valley ; the shell ornaments and bone implements are 
also mainly from thence ; the stone and flint implements from Wisconsin 
to the Gulf of Mexico, and from Florida to Colorado. It is classified 
chiefly typically. It possesses inscribed tablets found at Davenport, 
carved stone pipes, typical of the Upper Mississippi, 7. ¢, of the “curved 
base’? pattern, of which there are 57. This is the largest collection of this 
type in the United States. 
Of other patterns of prehistoric pipes there are........, iba 
Hammered copper axes.... : ei vedes dese VG 
te My BWI cvin wads “Miceepeeey MeO 
My cheba 01128 A ur gh Ws wba eves, CUO 
‘ ih KNIVGE, WUC ave Caliened reece tin ccm tO 
Prehistoric pottery vessels over 1000, some of them the largest ever 
found in North America : 
PLATENS OVE Ve i iwiecviU eevee testy con LOMOOO 
Stone oly OPT viia bet eile, UV are Res ous eee, OOO 
Heematite ‘ eR a (A oa eye DR ny 5 Abou eT 52 
OUSIAT POMS V cane Mes eevee NO RET WN Ls c Welewd we 25 
Shell and pearl beads several hundred. 
Gorgets and other shell ornaments.........,... eye 70 
BONS UN PIGMENTS MOSTLY AVIS) se ot pee ceth eee 4.4 ve 120 
Perforated ceremonial stones, &ec., 21; skulls of northern mound. 
builders, 35; skulls of southern mound-builders, 83; skulls of Sioux In- 
dians, 807; skulls of Central American, 127, &e. 
The collection which is in process of catalogueing, is displayed in glass 
cases in such a manner as to be readily accessible. 
The localities are given in the labels, together with many other details, 
“so that the whole explains itself to the visitor’? writes Mr. W. Vm A Sa HL 
who kindly furnished the data for the foregoing account. 
IHORGIA HisrorrcaL Socrury, Savannah, Ga. 
The collections of this Society were begun in 1839, but, not being very 
extensive, are not arranged in a strictly scientific manner. The specimens 
Which are labeled, and on exhibition in the Society’s Hall, are not cata- 
lowued, 
PROC. AMER, PHILOS. 800. XxI, 114, 0. PRINTED JULY 10, 1883, 
