1885.] The use of Copper by the Delaware Indians. 775 
which does not differ in any important feature from the preced- 
ing except that it has a smoother . 
surface, and appears to have been 
ground or polished, after being 
brought to its present shape, by 
hammering. 
Associated with the three 
spears was a small celt differing i 
in no respect from scores of such fii} 
objects found in Pennsylvania AK 
and New Jersey. The illustra- Nf 
tion (Fig. 2) represents the speci- $ 
men, of actual size, and needs 
no detailed description of the 
object. Suffice it to say that the |% 
evidence of its having been ham- ți we AN 
mered into shape is as patent as i i 
in the examples of spear-heads (WW f 
described by Professor Putnam. f 
Recently I have had the op- 
portunity of examining a large 
collection of Indian antiquities, 
made in the neighborhood of 
Reading, Penn. and about 
Bristol in the same State. In Fic. r.—Copper spear from Trenton, 
this collection are several copper New Jersey. 
objects, all of which are of patterns that have already been found 
and described from other Atlantic seaboard localities. They are 
of much interest, however, as showing that more of such objects 
were in use than has been supposed, and proportionately as the 
number found here increases, does the probability of their having 
been brought from a distance decrease; for there is found both 
in Eastern Pennsylvania and in New Jersey, a very considerable 
amount of native copper. Indeed one mass weighing over one 
hundred pounds has been found in Somerset county, New 
Jersey. 
Besides celts and spears there have been found many orna- 
ments of copper, which clearly showed that they were made by 
the same hammering process; and the character of the metal 
showed, in many cases, that it was identical with the nodules of 
