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KENTUCKY. 



Mr. W. Kinney, of Portsmouth, Scioto County, Ohio, presented a cop- 

 per ornament from a mound in Greenup County, Kentucky. The speci- 

 men is not in its original shape, as represented in Fig. 10, but bent into 

 the form of a lump, doubtless with a view to frustrate further use after 

 its deposition. I have seen in Europe bronze swords bent double with 

 the same intention. Mr. Kinney .slates as follows : 



The copper relic was found in an outlying mound in Greenup Couuty, nearly oppo- 

 site the mouth of the Scioto River, and one of the gronp so frequently referred to by 

 Squier and others. This mound is in the first or lower river-terrace, while the main 

 works are on the next. On one occasion half a bushel of these ornaments was found 

 in the same mound and sent to the smelter. 



TENNESSEE. 



The Bureau of Ethnology delivered a collection from a mound on 

 McGee's farm, Monroe County, namely: Small arrow-heads, polished 

 celts, a pestle, discoidal stones, a very fine large semicircular tanged 

 object (polished),* a clay pipe, a fragment of a stone pipe, drilled bears' 

 teeth, shell beads and pendants, a carved and open-worked shell disk 

 (gorget), cylindrical copper beads, glass beads (European), and two 

 human skulls. 



Further : Grooved axes, pierced tablets, bone implements (needles, 

 etc.), shell beads, pin -shaped objects of shell, shell gorgets (disk- 

 shaped), remarkable for the desigus engraved on them (spider and 

 human figures of Aztec character), and a rude shell mask (human face) 

 from a mound on Faine's Island, 3 miles southeast of Daudridge, Jef- 

 ferson Couuty. 



Further: Arrow-heads, hammer-stones, stone pipes, bone perforators, 

 bears' teeth, shell beads, pin- shaped objects of shell, and a number of 

 disk-like gorgets and masks (human faces) of the same material. Some 

 of the former show well-executed designs of rattlesnakes, etc. From 

 "McMahon Mound," Sevier County. 



Further : Flakes, rude chipped implements, scrapers, perforators, ar- 

 row and spear heads, polished celts, grooved axes, pierced tablets, a 

 spade-shaped pipe of chlorite (Fig. 11), bone perforators, shell beads, 

 and a slender straight copper implement, 10J inches long, square in the 

 cross-section, and tapering to a point at each end. 



Further: A large flint digging tool (oval), polished celts and celt- 

 gouges (some very good), and a number of gaming-disks (?), from Lauder- 

 dale County. 



Further: A large collection from "Citico Mound," on McSpadden's 

 farm, in Monroe County, embracing arrow-heads, polished celts and 

 chisels, hammer-stones, pestles, stone disks, some of them polished, 



"I formerly called such specimens "scraper-like implements," but having afterward 

 seen a large number of them, I am now inclined to class them as objects of orna- 

 mental or ceremonial character. 



