74 REPORT ON NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1885. 



of Santa F6, Miami County, and a ceremonial or ornamental object 

 made of cann el-coal, narrow in the middle and terminating at both ends 

 in semi-lunar-shaped expansions. The narrow part is perforated with 

 two holes. Length 9 inches. 



According to Mr. Nissley, " the specimen was discovered last' summer 

 (1884) by men who were prospecting for gravel suitable for a road on 

 the farm of F. A. Crisler, Greene Township, Jay County. Mr. Crisler and 

 others informed me that a plain cylinder-shaped pipe (?), made of hard 

 stone of a light color, occurred with the tablet. Both specimens were 

 found from 4 to 5 feet below the surface, during the first day's digging, 

 which also exposed sixteen human skeletons. I could learn of no other 

 relics having been discovered, excepting a clay vessel, said to be about 

 the size of a gallon measure, and taken out in fragments." There is in 

 the National Museum a cast of a somewhat similar object of cannel- 

 coal, found under the surface in Eoss Township, Butler County, Ohio. 

 The cast was sent by Mr. J. P. MacLean, and the original is figured on 

 page 167 of his "Mound Builders" (Cincinnati, 1879). 



The specimen acquired from Mr. Nissley is, on account of its size, 

 regular form, peculiar material, and perfect state of preservation, a most 

 valuable addition to the archaeological collection of the National Mu- 

 seum. (Ace. 16030.) 



W. M. Linney, Harrodsburg, Mercer County, Kentucky, loaned a 

 large flat- sided grooved axe, found in Indiana. A cast was taken at the 

 National Museum. (Ace. 16013.) 



ILLINOIS. 



From Bert Stewart, Decatur, Macon County, were received a spear- 

 head from Logan County, 2 celts from De Witt County, and a grooved 

 axe from Macon County. (Ace. 16137.) 



KENTUCKY. 



J. B. Yickers, Lyonia, Hancock County, sent a leaf-shaped imple- 

 ment, a trimmed flake, a scraper, arrow and spear-heads, a pestle, 2 

 celts, and 3 grooved axes from fields and rock-shelters near Panther 

 Creek, Hancock County. (Ace. 15638.) 



To W. M. Linney, Harrodsburg, Mercer County, we are indebted for 

 the loan of a flint cutter, the original from Central Kentucky. A cast 

 was taken in the National Museum. (Ace. 16013.) 



A. E. Douglass, New York City, sent a large pipe of greenish steatitic 

 material not unlike serpentine. It presents the form of a tube sur- 

 mounted by the figure of a duck. The original was found in "a mound 

 at Ashland, Boyd County, Kentucky. A cast was made in the National 

 Museum.* (Ace. 16068.) 



* This very fine specimen is described and figured in Dr. Hamy's Eevue WEthno- 

 graphie, Vol. Ill, p. 60, &c. 



