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the owner on some festive occasion, such as a medicine dance, 
priests of the fire-god in Mexico, in their abhorrent human sac- 
rifices. Found with the knives were several polished stones, 
oblong in shape, rounded on the sides, and flattened on the up- 
per and lower surfaces. They are of an exceedingly hard black 
rock not found in the immediate vicinity, and as the polish is 
equal to that of a lapidary of to-day, one is at a loss to conceive 
how it could have been done, unless by the attrition of another 
Se or stone of equal or superior hardness, and by immense 
r. 
Other articles coming under this head are flattened pieces of 
bone with carved edges, used probably as otorasiaa 59 of 
slate and sandstone with straight tubes, whistles formed of the 
Pri are of all sizes and forms, the most frequent being a 
shaft of hard serpentine or sandstone, ending in a little ball. 
was is com of dark greenstone ex- 
bey hard, and is well polished. In shape it is like a bell, 
below and tapering to the handle, which ends with 
an ornamental top. 
