PLOIMET-SHAPED IMPLEMENTS. 



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has been smoothed rather than polished, and is noticeable, like the following 

 (Fig. 65), in having a well-defined groove at one end, and simply termi- 

 nating in a blunt point at the other. This specimen is broader for its length 

 than the majority of those I find recorded from the fig. 65. 



various localities throughout the country where these 

 implements occur. If it were not for the terminal 

 tapering point this implement would be identical with 

 the generality of so-called "sinkers" found on our 

 Atlantic coast ; and for any of the purposes suggested 

 to which such an implement might be applied it is diffi- 

 cult to see what advantage this slender ungrooved 

 termination would give. 



Fig. 65, from a grave at Santa Barbara (S. I. 

 21873), differs from the preceding in being much 

 more slender in proportion to its length. This varia- 

 tion in shape possibly arises from their being shaped 

 from ordinary oval water-worn pebbles, the carefully- 

 wrought ends being completed. The pebbles other- 

 wise were not materially altered in shape or reduced in 

 bulk. This specimen is made of greenstone, and, 

 like the preceding, is carefully smoothed, but not 

 highly polished ; but many, both of this and other ma- 

 terials, have been brought to as high a polish as was 

 possible to produce on the mineral. The presence of 

 the groove at one end of both this and the preceding 

 indicates that but one end was intended to be attached 

 to a cord, whether that cord was a fishing-line or a 

 plummet-string, as has been insisted upon by various writers. 



[Three other of these implements from the graves at Santa Barbara, col- 

 lected by Mr. Bowers, and now in the Peabody Museum (13591), are made 

 of a talcose slate, and are in general character like the two figured above; 

 one being long and slender like Fig. 65, though slightly longer originally, 

 but now broken at one end. The two others are more like Fig. 64 in 

 being short and thick. One of these is broken at one end, and it is now 

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Fluminet-shaped implement 

 of stone. 



