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MISCELLANEOUS OBJECTS MADE OF STONE. 



Fig. 79. 



as a decoration, even by civilized eyes. Smaller but otherwise similar speci- 

 mens of circular stone ornaments, found in the interior of the country and 

 along the Atlantic coast, are as a rule ornamented with lines, rows of dots, 



semicircles, carvings of 

 the human face, and other 

 designs. These usually 

 have but a single perfora- 

 tion, for suspension sim- 

 ply. The most perfect 

 of these, found in New 

 Jersey by the writer, has 

 a human face quite ar- 

 tistically cut upon it, but 

 the incised lines and de- 

 pression representing the 



Fig. 80. 



Disk, with perforations. 



mouth are so shallow that some bright pigment 

 was probably used to make the design of the 

 artist more plainly visible. Of the same gen- 

 eral character as the preceding- is the large 

 oval slab of steatite (S. I. 20422), with a single 

 perforation, and ornamented with lines run- 

 ning obliquely across it, and in portions of it, 

 in opposite directions, thus dividing the sur- 

 face into small diamond-shaped spaces. This 

 specimen, Fig. 80, is much larger than the 

 generality of these oval pendants, and other- 

 wise differs from eastern specimens in having 

 the edges unworked and somewhat irregular. 

 It measures over 7 inches in length by 4 inches 



Incised pendant of stone, 



111 gl 



eatest breadth, and is the largest of its class of which I have knowledge. 



