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644 NOTES ON ABORIGINAL RELICS KNOWN AS PLUMMETS. 
grave of the dead, and the distortion of the skull, both of which 
were common among the Natchez and other „tribes upon the 
lower Mississippi, but neither of which was practised by tribes 
living upon the banks of the Upper Mississippi, since its discov- 
ery. Whether the “ plummet” found near their village belonged 
to them, or to some older population, can only be a matter of 
conjecture. The implement is made of a whitish limestone con- 
taining numerous small joints of Crinoids. 
A much smaller implement, but evidently used for the same 
purpose (Fig. 134), was found sixteen feet below the surface of the 
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earth, in Brown County, Illinois. It is made of green stone 
With it were found a small stone scraper and a small disk. | seats 
locality where it was found was the bed of a ravine which i 
been filled up by soil washed from higher ground. pee 
The one represented in figure 135 is copied from Schoo! | 
work, Vol. IV, 175. He describes it as “a fisherman’s sinker, 0 
the Penacook tribe, accurately wrought in stone.” “<a 
In amound at Marietta, Ohio, ‘ near the feet of a skeleton in 
found a piece of copper (Fig. 136) weighing three ounces (20W 
t. size) Stone (nat. size). 
