DEPARTMENT OF AftCILEOLOGY. l07 



pierced tablets, stone pipes, a fragment of a large pot-stone vessel, 

 pieces of red mineral paint, drilled bears' teeth, bone perforators, shell 

 beads and pendants, pin-shaped objects of shell, shell masks (human 

 faces), clay vessels ornamented with raised figures, incised lines, etc., 

 and human skulls and bones. 



Mr. Edward D. Hicks, of Nashville, sent to the National Museum 

 three chipped flint objects, remarkable for large size and unusual forms, 

 namely: A sword or truncheon-like article (Fig. 12), and an imple- 

 ment (?) formed at one end like a crab's claw (Fig. 13), both from Hum- 

 phreys County. Also, a nearly circular disk (Fig. 14), measuring 9 

 inches in major diameter, and chipped to an edge around the circum- 

 ference. This specimen, found in Stewart County, differs in make from 

 the disk-like flint articles found in deposits. These three objects, of 

 which casts were taken in the National Museum, are surface finds. 



Large specimens of gray flint, more or less analogous in form to 

 those just mentioned, are in the Peabody Museum at Cambridge. Mass. 

 They were likewise found in Humphreys and Stewart Counties, in 

 mounds and on the surface. 



MICHIGAN. 



Mr. D. S. Carvin, of Lyons, Fulton County, Ohio, presented a plat- 

 form pipe. It consists of the mottled stone which forms the material 

 of many of the pipes in the Squier and Davis collection, now in Eng- 

 land. It was found in a maize-field in Berrien County, Michigan. 



WISCONSIN. 



Two drilled bears' teeth, two bone ornaments, two small sheets of 

 native silver, shaped by beating, and six cylindrical copper beads from 

 a mound at Warner's Landing, Vernon County, were presented by Dr. 

 J. L. De Witt, of Newton, Yernon County. The pieces of sheet silver 

 are of special interest, being the first specimens of this kind given to the 

 Museum. 



From the Bureau of Ethnology were received a leaf-shaped imple- 

 ment, fragments of burned bones, a copper or brass kettle, and a num- 

 ber of silver bracelets, gorgets, ear-rings, etc., from a mound in Craw- 

 ford County. The objects evidently accompanied an intrusive burial. 



AKKANSAS. 



From the Bureau of Ethnology were received small arrow heads, ham- 

 mer-stones, chipped celts with polished cutting edges, polished celts, 

 mullers, grinding-stones, polishing-stones, gaming disks (?), bone per- 

 forators, and pieces of worked stag-horn from an ancient Indian burial 

 ground at Bradley's Landing, Crittenden County. 



Further: Eude leaf shaped implements, small arrow-heads, perfora- 

 tors, hammer-stones, a polished celt, a semi-circular tanged object 



