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PERFORATED STOKES. 



which has been perforated, and has a deeply-cut line running around one 

 side, as if an attempt had been made to cut the stone in two. This speci- 

 men, which is shown of full size in the figure, was found by Mr. Schumacher 

 in one of the graves at the isthmus on the island of Santa Catalina. 



Fig. 55. Six others of these small steatite 



pebbles of irregular shape are in the 

 Peabod}^ Museum. They are from 2 

 to 2\ inches in greatest diameter and 

 from f of an inch to 1 inch in thick- 

 ness. The perforations are 1 inch or 

 less in diameter. They are all from 

 the island of Santa Catalina ; some 

 from the graves and others from the 

 shellheap. 



An irregularly-shaped stone, which, 

 probably, should be considered as a 

 large bead of steatite (P. M. 13656), was found by Mr. Schumacher in a 

 grave at the isthmus on Santa Catalina Island. It is 1 inch thick and 

 \\ in diameter. The hole was made by boring, and is nearly f of an inch 

 wide. - There are a few deep scratches on one side, and two notches are cut 

 on the margin of the hole on one face. 



From the island of San Miguel Mr. Bowers obtained a perforated circu- 

 lar mass of clay, which is the only example of the kind that has come under 

 my notice from California. It is 2| inches in diameter by about § of an 

 inch in thickness, and has a hole, with straight sides, nearly 1 inch in 

 diameter. The. use to which this specimen could be put is beyond my 

 powers to define. The soft and easily broken substance of which it is made 

 seems to preclude the idea that it was designed for the same purpose as the 

 others, and as it has not been burned we cannot regard it as a support to a 

 cooking-pot, as similar clay rings were probably used by the Lake-dwellers 

 of Switzerland. 



Another interesting specimen, unlike those I have already mentioned, 

 was obtained by Mr. Schumacher from the graves at Dos Pueblos. This is 

 shown of full size by Fig. 56, which represents the stone as seen from one 



Perforated stone i'rcn; me island of Santa 

 Catalina. 



