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MOKTAES AND PESTLES. 



Fig. 23. 



Fig. 24. 



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inch in width. This projects about one-fourth of an inch from the body of 

 the pestle, and may possibly have been used for suspending the implement. 

 Fig. 23 is similar to the one represented by Fig. 22, but is three 

 inches shorter, and nearly one and a half inches less in circumference at the 

 end. It is made of a much harder mineral, is of darker color, and quite 



highly polished ; but still retains traces of its orig- 

 inally pecked surface. The head has the collars 

 one inch and a half in width, and the depression 

 separating them is much deeper than in the pre- 

 ceding example. 



Fig. 24 is but three-tenths of an inch shorter 

 than the preceding, but varies in both finish and 

 mineral, being of much softer sandstone than either 

 of the others. It has received little or no polish, 

 and is still pitted with the marks of the hammer 

 stone. The projecting collars at the head are 

 more prominent than in the foregoing examples, 

 but have the separating depression less denned. 

 These collars also, in the present instance, are at 

 the extreme end of the implement ; but a slight 

 swelling- or elevation about their centre, above, 

 may really be a trace of a continuation of the 

 cylindrical body of the specimen that has been 

 broken off, and the fractured surface subsequently 

 worn down to its present condition. The pound- 

 ing or crushing end of this pestle is somewhat 

 battered, and one large flat splinter has been 

 broken off. 



Fig. 25 represents a long, symmetrical pestle, 

 made of medium dense sandstone. Either through 

 use or by design it has been polished over the entire surface, and in many 

 places the pecked surface has been obliterated Evidently, however, the 

 stone has considerably decayed since its burial in a grave, as it is now almost 

 too soft to use for the purposes for which it was intended. 





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