Putnam.] 326 [January 6, 



threaded, 1 some of which were nearly white. Seven needles, 2 

 some of which were of horn and some of bone ; they were smooth, 

 and appeared to have been much used. These needles had each a 

 knob or whorl on the top, and at the other end were brought to a 

 point like a large sail-needle. They had no eyelets to receive a 

 thread. The top of one of these needles was handsomely scolloped. 

 A hand piece 3 made of deer-skin, with a hole through it for the 

 thumb, and designed probably to protect the hand in the use of the 

 needle, the same as thimbles are now used. Two whistles, about 

 eight inches long, made of cane, with a joint about one third the 

 length ; over the joint is an opening extending to each side of the 

 tube of the whistle ; these openings were about three quarters of an 

 inch long and an inch wide, and had each a flat reed placed in the 

 opening. These whistles were tied together with a cord wound 

 around them. 4 



" I have been thus minute in describing this mute witness from the 

 days of other times, and the articles which were deposited within 

 her earthen house. Of the race of people to whom she belonged 

 when living we know nothing ; and, as to conjecture, the reader who 

 gathers from these pages this account, can judge of the matter as well 

 as those who saw the remnant of mortality in the subterranean cham- 

 bers in which she was entombed." 



Letter from Charles Wilkins 5 to Sec'y Am. Antiq. Soc, respecting an exsiccated 

 body, discovered in a cave in Kentucky, - now in the Cabinet of the Soci- 

 ety, and described in the preceding letter from John H. Farnham. 6 (Trans. 

 Am. Antiq. Soc, Vol. I, pp. 361-363.) 



" I have the pleasure of acknowledging the receipt of your letter, 

 of the fifteenth August last, informing me that the American Anti- 

 quarian Society were in possession of the Mummy, which they are 

 pleased to consider a valuable acquisition ; and requesting me to 

 give you some account of the manner in which it was found. The 



1 Fragments still in the collection. 



2 These " needles " are more properly awls, and are the horns of young deer 

 sharpened by rubbing. The scolloped top is the natural base of the horn. One 

 is still in the collection. 



3 No longer with the collection. 



4 Two reeds, answering to this description and still tied together, exist in the col- 

 lection. They show that they were once ornamented by feathers, 

 s Dated Lexington, Ky., Oct. 2, 1817. 

 6 1 have not quoted Mr. Farnham's letter as it does not give additional fact3 . 



