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celt, a large grooved ax, a grooved maul, a pestle, three pierced tablets, 

 one-half of a ceremonial weapon, a bird-shaped objeet, and a natural 

 formation (clay-iron stone;, from Carroll County, and an oval flat peb- 

 ble of banded slate thickest in the middle, having portions cut out at 

 the smaller ends, with the intention to make it into a ceremonial 

 weapon. This interesting piece (obtained in Howard County) is repre- 

 sented in Fig. 7, and in Fig. 8 is shown the form of a finished object of 

 the same character, received from Ohio in 1879. 



A collection from Floyd, Harrison, and Crawford Counties, was pre- 

 sented by Mr. John H. Lemon, of .New Albany. It embraces rude and 

 leaf-shaped implements, cutting-tools, scrapers, perforators, arrow and 

 spear heads, polished celts, grooved axes, pestles, and fragments of 

 pierced tablets. 



A leaf-shaped implement, arrow-heads, polished celts, a grooved ax, 

 and a rude pierced tablet (mostly good specimens), from Wheatland, 

 Knox County, were presented by Dr. E. C. Black, of Wheatland. 



ILLINOIS. 



The Museum is indebted to Mr. C. Armstrong, of Carroltou, Greene 

 County, for the loan of a chipped and afterward polished specimeu of 

 white jasper, in the form of a lizard (Fig. 9). This object, of which there 

 is now a cast in the National Museum, measures 3 inches in length. 

 It was found on the surface in Walkerville Township, Greene County, 

 on what is known as the Illinois River Bluffs. It may be of ornamental 

 or totemic character. 



The Bureau of Ethnology delivered a collection from a mound near 

 Mill Cre(dv, Alexander County, namely: Large rude chipped imple- 

 ments, chipped celts,' some with polished cutting edges, a spear head, 

 an irregular polished tablet of pale-greenish fluorite, pierced with two 

 holes, shell beads and other ornaments of shell, bone perforators, drilled 

 bears 7 teeth, worked stag horn, and fragments of animal bones. 



The pierced tablet is a very remarkable specimen. 



Further : Arrow and spear heads, a polished celt, a pierced tablet, 

 spool-shaped objects of copper, and a compact earthy mass inclosing 

 bears' teeth (partly notched), and fragments of bones, from a mound 

 near Fountain Bluff, Jackson County . 



Further : One hundred leaf-shaped implements of dark flint or horn- 

 stone from a subterranean deposit of one hundred and ten, on the farm 

 of John G. Simms, near De Soto, Jackson County. I have not yet 

 learned how the specimens were arranged under ground. 



Further: A chungkee-stone (pierced and well finished), two TJnio 

 shells prepared to serve as spoons, and two thin sheets of copper, one 

 square, with two human figures, with head-dresses, apparently in the 

 act of dancing, stamped upon it, and the other in a less good state of 

 preservation, showing also a human figure similarly produced. These 

 objects came from a stone grave near Bluff Lake, Union County. 



