Phillips.] 118 [May 4, 
600; stone axes (one weighing 8} Ibs.) 865; stone pipes and perforated 
ornaments, about 250 ; and over 8000 spear—lance—and arrow-heads, 
The collection has been largely increased since 1876. ‘* The especial 
feature of the collection’ (writes Mr. I. 8. Bradley, of Madison) ‘‘is the 
great number of large and well made copper implements, and some re- 
markably fine stone axes.”’ 
The collection is displayed in horizontal glass cases. 
Wyomina EHrsToricaAL AND GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY, Withes-Barre, Pa. 
“This cabinet originated in the year 1858, the date of the foundation of 
the Society. The collection is in the main made up of local finds, a few 
specimens being from other places at a distance ; it may, however, be con- 
sidered as a distinctively local collection. It is classified typically, and 
consists of specimens as follows : 
Pottery : 5 specimens as shown in publication No, 4, also 2 specimens of 
such size as to show the shape, size and design of vessel, and about one-halfa 
bushel of fragments collected for pupose of studying material used in their 
manufacture, ornamentation, &e. 
Net sinkers, 125; hoes, 5; hand-hammers or hammer-stones, Al; vub- 
bing-stones, 5 ; discoidal stones, 10; ceremonial objects, perforated, 5 as 
shown on page 852 of Abbott’s ‘Primitive Industry,’’ 2 such as shown 
on page 856, and 1 ason page 859, and several fragments of same ; totems, 
gorgets, &e., 25, and fragments ; berds, 5 strings ; pipes, 15 ; cells, skinners 
and chisels, 60; and 15 broken specimens ; tomahawks, 11; ground. stone 
wees, 223 ground-stone club heads or death mauls, 17; mortars, stone, 8; 
lignumoite 1 ; shallow mortars or lap-stones, 5, 2 of them bi-concave ; 
crushers, 4; pestles, 20 perfect, and 14 broken ; plummets, 3; engraved 
stone, 1; plows, 2 (‘‘I have never seen these implements described, and 
call them plows at a venture ;’’ writes Mr. Sheldon Reynolds, the Curator 
of the Society, who has kindly furnished the description of the collection), 
they are about 18 inches long, 4 inches square at one end, retaining the 
square throughout nearly half their length, they are then rounded and the 
balance is in shape of a tapering pestle, weighing about 15 or 20 pounds. 
Stone last, 1: (Roughly chipped stone bearing close resemblance to a last, 
and supposed to have been used for that purpose). 
Pitted stones, 2: Supposed to have been used for mixing colors in. 
Paleolithic instruments, 4. 
1 large flat stone, evidently used for smoothing (dressing) skins, found 
covering Indian grave. 
Arrow-points, 2400. 
Spear-points, 150. 
1 copper spear-point, found in mound in neighborhood. 
83 crania ; 8 bows; 2 quivers; 1 canoe; 2 belts wampum. 
The collection is believed to represent in a fair degree generally the 
articles of ornament, domestic utensils, and weapons of the chase and 
warfare of the aborigines. 
