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furrows, each an inch in length. Perhaps designed for a similar purpose 

 as the last-mentioned ornament, or implement, is a little pebble (P. M. 

 13513) of steatite, about 1£ inches long and 1 in width, which has a small 

 deeply-cut groove around its centre. With this little pebble is another 

 stone from San Clemerite which may be classed with it (P. M. 13502). 

 It is made of an impure steatite in the form of a cylinder, 1£ inches long 

 and nearly 1 inch in diameter, and has a groove around it about half an 

 inch from one end. Another stone, of singular shape and unknown use, 

 from a grave on San Clemente Island (P. M. 13500), is a piece of serpen- 

 tine which has been carefully cut, but not polished, into a three-cornered 

 form, with sides about 2 inches long, one of which is straight and the 

 other two are concave. 



Fig. 92 is an outline of a nearly regularly hexagonal-shaped stone 

 which was obtained near Santa Barbara by Mr. Schumachei-, but of which 

 a description was not taken while the specimen was fig. 9g^ 



temporarily in my possession. It is now in the Smith- 

 sonian Institution. 



Another class of stones, of which many examples 

 have been found during the later explorations on the 

 islands, corresponds to the smooth "slick stones" of the 

 Atlantic States. They are of various sizes and shapes, and Hexagonal-shaped" stone. 

 are generally made of smooth pebbles, one face of which has been rubbed 

 flat. Many of them are very small — being less than an inch in length — 

 while others are so large as to have some resemblance to large flat grind- 

 ing-stones, of which several examples are also in the collection from Cali- 

 fornia. Similar small stones are now used by the Indians of Mexico in 

 giving a polish to their pottery before it is burnt, as shown by the collec- 

 tion made by Dr. Palmer; and those from California may have been used 

 for polishing the many articles made of serpentine and allied minerals. — 

 F. W. P.] 



Water-worn pebbles, when found of the desired globular and oval 

 shapes, were undoubtedly used as ornaments, and occasionally some of 

 these little pebbles were made into pendants by grinding the stones to a 

 slight angle at one end and making a hole through the narrowed portion. 



