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MISCELLANEOUS OBJECTS MADE OP STONE. 



Ornament of stone with 

 cloth attached. 



From a grave at the isthmus on the island of Santa Catalina, at a 

 place called "Cabrillo's Rancheria," Mr. Schumacher obtained an interesting 

 fig. 9i. ornament (P. M. 13269) cut from a piece of steatite. 



The shape and markings of this stone are well shown 

 in Fig. 91. The tablet is about a quarter of an inch 

 thick, and is slightly concave on its ornamented sur- 

 face and smooth and convex on the opposite. The 

 incised lines on the surface of the stone repre- 

 sented in the figure are continued on the edges, 

 and at one end are two very small holes through 

 which a string has been passed for fastening or sus- 

 pending the ornament. At this end of the stone, as 

 shown in the figure, a small portion of finely-woven 

 cloth has been preserved by contact with an iron 

 implement, which was found much decomposed in 

 the grave. Thus, while this ornament was unques- 

 tionably of Indian workmanship, it was retained by 

 its owner as a valued article after European contact had furnished the tribe 

 to which he belonged with ornaments of glass and implements of iron. 



A triangular piece of steatite, about 3 inches long, and possibly a por- 

 tion of a large pot or olla, had formerly a small hole at one corner, probably 

 for suspension. From this corner two deeply-cut lines, a quarter of an inch 

 apart, run parallel across the convex surface of the stone, and from each 

 of these lines several others, about an inch long, run out obliquety. 

 This example of rude ornamental art came from the island of San Clemente 

 (P. M. 13490). 



A fragment of what was probably a pendant of steatite, 3 or 4 inches 

 long, is ornamented on each side with numerous longitudinal and trans- 

 verse lines. This was found by Mr. Schumacher in Pots Valley (P. M. 

 13438). 



In a grave at Johnson's Place on the island of Santa Catalina, Mr. 

 Schumacher found an oval piece of polished serpentine (P. M. 13275) 

 nearly 2 inches long and § of an inch wide. This stone has a notch cut at 

 each end and a groove about its centre, and on one side there are two 



