1880.] Notes on Stone Implements found in New ¥ersey. 713 
as are identical with those found in Vermont, and which are sup- 
posed to be of other than “ Red-skin” origin. Prominent among 
these are the stone tubes. The best New Jersey examples are 
those from near Bridgeport, Gloucester county, N. J. They are 
made of a drab-colored clay slate, about one inch in exterior 
diameter, and ten inches in length. The finish in all respects is 
excellent, and in every feature are they identical with those _ 
described by Prof. Perkins. These New Jersey specimens are in 
the cabinet of Mr. Wm. S. Vaux, of Philadelphia. Smaller 
examples of variegated green slate, and others of baked clay! 
have been found by the writer, but none so long or so elaborately 
wrought as the Bridgeport specimens referred to. Excepting 
such as have the perforation of very small diameter, these tubes 
do not differ materially from the California tubular smoking 
Pipes.” Curiously enough, associated with these Bridgeport 
implements were found some magnificently wrought chalcedony 
spear-heads; remarkably similar to California specimens found in 
the same graves as the tubular pipes referred to. (See Plate 11 of 
Archeology of Wheeler’s Survey, Vol. vir.) Interesting as the 
Occurrence of supposed relics of the Mound-builders in Ver- 
mont certainly is, it is of greater wonderment that the California 
types should occur as far distant as the Atlantic coast; unless 
indeed there is or was a very close connection between the sev- 
eral peoples of the continent. This, it seems to the writer, is 
highly improbable. So far as the New Jersey examples of stone 
implements and ornaments of extra-limital forms are concerned, 
the writer is disposed to refer them to the Shawnees, who at one 
time occupied much of the valley of the Delaware, and coming 
from the south-west either brought them from the neighborhoods 
of their distant homes, the products of their own handiwork, or 
were at that time even, veritable relics of a forgotten people. 
Whether the Shawnees were mound builders or not, need not 
here be discussed. Sufficient to know that they may be located 
wherever one finds the mounds, and so it would not be strange 
that they should copy and also ‘preserve the relics of this sup- 
_ posed “ pre-Indian ” people. | eo eo 
1 Nature, Vol. xiv, P- 154, Figs. 3, 4 and 5. 
*U. S. Geog. Survey west rooth meridian: Vol. vil, Archeology, plates vu, VIII, 
1X. The sixteen smoking pipes here figured are not cylindrical like the Vermont 
and New Jersey examples, but are so far similar as to suggest identical purposes: 
_ One tube of uniform caliber I have figured and referred to as a “ medicine tube,” in 
_ another chapter. See the volume. : 
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