102 REPORT ON NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1886. 



PENNSYLVANIA. 



Mr. A. F. Berlin, of Alleutown, Lehigh County, presented five rude 

 implements, four cutters, thirteen arrow-heads, and a notched sinker, 

 all found on Lehigh Island, in the Lehigh River, near Allentown. Some 

 of the arrow-heads are of the rare leaf-shaped tanged type (Fig. 3).* 



Dr. J. J. Fullmer, of Philadelphia, sent for inspection a grooved stone 

 ax, which he had found in Fairmount Park, in that city. The ax, which 

 consists of a fine-grained sandstone, is remarkable for its length, and 

 ibr having the rather shallow groove so near to the butt-end that it is 

 difficult to understand how it could have been used with a handle. 

 The groove, moreover, shows distinct traces of wear. This ax has an 

 analogue in certain European stone axes, in which the shaft-hole is very 

 near the butt, and which, when hafted, would have presented the same 

 difficulties of manipulation. 



A cast of the specimen represented in Fig. 4 is now in the National 

 Museum. 



VIRGINIA. 



From Mr. John B. Wiggins, of Chula, Amelia County, were received 

 specimens from an aboriginal mica mine in Amelia County, consisting 

 of fragments composed of eanh, charcoal, and mica, and a piece of the 

 kind of stone (trap rock) of which the mauls used in obtaining mica 

 were made. I take the following from Mr. Wiggins's letter accompany- 

 ing the specimens : 



On examination I find that for acres around the John McCormick mine the ground 

 has been dug over and the surface mica extracted. The method employed in break- 

 ing the large quartz rock containing mica was by building fires and heating them, 

 afterwards using heavy mauls made of the same material as the fragment of stone 

 inclosed. I beg to say that the early workers of these mines labored under great 

 difficulties in obtaining the mica, and it must have been very highly prized by them. 



A small collection, consisting of a leaf-shaped implement, arrow and 

 spear heads, grooved axes, a stone slab with a mortar cavity on each 

 side, and a fragment of pottery from Massaponax, Spottsylvania County, 

 was received from Mr. Eobert P. Bigelow, of Washington, D. C. 



A valuable addition to the collection was a handled boat-shaped pot- 

 stone bowl 13 inches long, found 8 feet below the surface on the west 

 bank of the Potomac Biver, about 7 miles above Washington, in Fair- 

 fax County, and presented by Mr. John W. Brock, of Philadelphia. 

 This vessel (Fig. 5) is not finished by smoothing, but left in a rough 

 state, showing the distinct marks of the tools by which it was fashioned. 



WEST VIRGINIA. 



From the Bureau of Ethnology was received a large collection from 

 different localities in the Kanawha Valley, consisting of rude chipped 

 implements (mostly celts), scrapers, perforators, arrow and spear heads, 



*Most of the received objects are of stone; whenever they consist of another ma- 

 terial it is specially mentioned. 



