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supposed to have been used in the Indian game of 

 chung ke and to have been rolled down a level court. 

 Discoidal stones of lava are used in the Hawaiian 

 Islands in the game of maika. It is admitted that 

 many discoidal stones, both on account of their 

 size, which is too diminutive, and because their 

 border slopes so as to interfere with rolling, 

 must have served another purpose, probably 

 in a different game. Those found by us 

 show no wear and cannot have been used 

 as smoothing stones or polishers. Dis- 

 coidal stones have never been met with 

 by us in Florida. 



It is a curious fact that discs, 

 roughly shaped from fragments of 

 earthenware vessels, are frequently 

 found in mounds of the Georgia 

 coast 1 and these doubtless saw 

 service in place of their proto- 

 types in stone. It is inter- 

 esting to note an aboriginal 

 tendency to lighten labor 

 or to supplement a defi- 

 cient supply by the use 

 of imitations. In neo- 

 lithic Europe pend- 

 ants made from 

 canine teeth of 

 large carnivores 

 and pierced for 

 suspension 

 were imitated 

 in horn and 

 in b o n e, 2 

 while in 



the great Shields Mound, 3 



near the mouth of the St. 



Johns River, we found many 



canine teeth used as pendants 



and imitations of them made 



of shell. At the present time, 



the natives of Kings Island, 



Alaska, sew upon ceremonial gloves 



used in dancing, beaks of a bird, the 



puffin {F. arctica) and with them, 



reproductions in wood. 4 



1 Their presence had been noted in other local- 

 ities. " Stone Art," Thirteenth Annual Report, 

 Bureau of Ethnology, p. 109. 

 2 L'AntlirojioIoi/if, July-August, 1896, p. 460. 

 3 " Certain River Mounds of Duval County, Flori- 

 da." Jour. Acad. Nat. Set, Vol. X. 

 4 Collection, Acad. Nat. Sci. 



Fig. 16.— Chisel of slate. Mound ; 

 Creighton Island. (Full size.) 



