200 



MISCELLANEOUS OBJECTS MADE OF STONE. 



Figs. 71 and 72 represent a specimen from Santa Barbara (S. I. 15188) 

 which, though closely allied to the preceding, varies in two particulars ; 

 the principal one being the hole through it at one end ; the other differ- 

 ence being the much shallower groove. The perforation in this instance 



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Fig. 72. 



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probably has nothing whatever to 

 do with the use of the implement, 

 but was intended simply to enable 

 a cord to be securely attached to 

 the stone that it might the more 

 easily be carried, and the danger of 

 being lost lessened when not in use. 

 [The later collections made by 

 Mr. Schumacher for the Peabody 

 Museum embrace many of these 

 grooved implements of various forms. 

 They are nearly all made of steatite, 

 which in several is more or less 

 changed in character by heating. 

 The largest (P. M. 13288) of a lot 

 of sixteen now before me, from the 

 shellheaps and graves on Santa 



Perforated "arrow-smoother;" front and side viBTV;. Czarina, is 8 inches in length and 



3 in width. This stone has a flat base and pointed ends, increasing in 

 thickness to the centre, across which is a deep groove. Another speci- 

 men of about the same size and shape (P. M. 13388) has a hole 

 through one end for suspension. Another example is also furnished 

 with a hole at one end. This last (P. M. 13428) is of the same 

 length and width, and, seen from above, of about the same outline as the 

 one represented by Fig. 70, but it is much thinner, and the under surface 

 is hollowed so that the deep groove on the upper has but a thin portion of 

 the stone under its central part. A specimen from the island of San Cle- 

 mente is of a similar shape, and also has a hole for suspension. Still others 

 of the Santa Catalina specimens (P. M. 13332 and 14797) have been made 

 by cutting the groove across the bottom of irregularly-shaped little vessels 



