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Fig. 45. 



Another example (P. M. 13692) of this form is from the island of San 

 Miguel. It is 3^ inches in diameter and 2^ inches high. The hole is of 

 the same size and shape as in the two preceding specimens. Portions of 

 the surface of this stone are 

 much battered, and several 

 fractures have resulted from 

 the hard usage to which the 

 implement has been sub- 

 jected. The mineral is much 

 decomposed, but is probably 

 basalt. The fractured por- 

 tions and the sides of the 

 hole are, like the rest of the 

 stone, very much weath- 

 ered. 



These three stones are 

 so admirably suited by their 

 shape, size, and large per- 

 forations, for hafting and Perforated stone; bottom view.of Fig. 44. 

 for use as heads of clubs that I am inclined to consider them as such; and 

 the fact that two of them are rudely ornamented is favorable to tliis view, 

 as is also the rough usage that one of them has received. 



Among the most remarkable of the conical forms are three which, 

 while they vary slightly in outline, are yet so much alike that they form a 

 little group by themselves, and their close agreement in size is so remark- 

 able as to suggest that they were made after a particular and established 

 pattern. Two of these are from the island of Santa Cruz and the other 

 is from the island of Santa Rosa. Dr. Ran, in his account of the archae- 

 ological collections in the Smithsonian Institution, figures (p. 90, fig. 320) 

 another specimen -of the same type, but does not give the locality whence 

 it was obtained, though it is probably from the island of Santa Cruz. 

 There is also a specimen* in the Smithsonian collection from Santa Cruz 



* The specimen here alluded to may be the one figured by Dr. Kan, 



