The Saginaw Valley Collection 



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other objects found on the surface of the Band ridges along the 



■m >ule ot" Saginaw River in the cit) of Saginaw, Indicate a 



Dumber of village sites which were separated l»> bayous, From 



one ot" the latter series 

 there has been obtained 

 one of the so-called 

 " bird-shaped " stones 

 which is evidently in 

 process of manufac- 

 ture. The greater por- 

 tion of the surface 

 shows the pits caused 

 by "' pecking," as it is 

 technically called, that 

 is. the bruising of the 

 surface of the stone 

 and the brushing away 

 of the crushed particles 

 until it has assumed 

 the shape desired. At 

 either side of what was 

 to have been the head, 

 the next process in the 

 manufacture had been 

 taken up. iiown 



by the rubbed sun 

 It is probable that this 

 rubbing was done with 

 a rather coarse stone, 

 and that the implement 

 would have been fin- 

 ished by polishir. 



Mobray Village 

 Site. — This site, which 

 is on the east side of 

 the river in South S 

 naw, had on its sur 



a sandstone pipe decorated with neatly arranged pit 

 which outcrops in the bottom of t was mention* 



W. < )r. h..r' 



"FLUTED" OR CORRUGATED STONE CHISEL. 

 'Flute. :.ly iii Mkl 



and thi rkclv 



Natural S 



