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PERFORATED STONES. 



pose of description. Several of these are highly polished, and a few are 

 ornamented by incised lines. The amount of labor which must have been 

 bestowed on many of them in order to give the perfect finish which they 

 possess, and the fact that some are rudely ornamented, suggest their having 

 been devoted to an important use; and while some may possibly have been 

 weights to digging-sticks, and others whorls, as a group they seem better 

 adapted for club-heads than for any other purpose. 



The largest (Fig. 48) and best made of these globular stones is from 



Fig. 48. 



Perforated stone from the island of Santa Catalina. 



" Pots Valley," island of Santa Catalina (P. M. 13419). It weighs fifty- 

 eight ounces, is of steatite, and has been smoothed and finished with care. 

 Its symmetry is as near perfection as could be expected, and around the 

 upper or polished end of the hole there is a slight rim, about an eighth of 

 an inch wide, formed by a groove. This portion, which I call the top of 

 the stone, is highly polished, the polishing also extending down the sides 

 and including about one-third of the surface. That this polishing is the 



