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is described by Squier and Davis as being a very fine-grained, 
cinnamon-coloured, sand-stone. The tablet is six inches and a 
quarter in length, one and three-eighths in breadth, and a 
quarter of an inch in thickness. The other tablets h and in 
this Case, when found were wrapped in thin plates of copper ; 
they also were obtained from Mound No. i, "Clark's Work." 
Altogether fragments of four tablets were found in this mound. 
Squier and Davis mention that they appear to have been painted 
of different colours ; " a dark red pigment is yet plainly to be 
seen in the depressions of some of the fragments ; others had 
been painted of a dense black colour." No. 31, in Case A 50, 
is part of a stamp of terra-cotta found in another of the Ohio 
mounds. No. 32 in the same Case is an ideal restoration of 
the complete stamp. No. 37, Case A 50, is part of another 
terra-cotta stamp from a mound in Ohio. 
Nos. 35 and 36, in Case A 50, are casts of the upper 
and under surfaces of a tablet found in a mound in the 
City plot of Cincinnati, associated with an inhumed skele- 
ton, and some pointed bone implements, about seven inches 
in length, made from the tibia of the elk. These objects 
appear to have been deposited with the primary interment, 
which was in the centre of the mound, and rather below the 
original level of the ground. Several secondary and super- 
ficial interments had taken place in this mound. The tablet is 
carved from a piece of fine-grained, compact, sandstone, of a 
light brown colour. It measures five inches in length, three inches 
in breadth at the ends, two and three-fifths at the middle, and is 
about half an inch in thickness. The sculptured surface varies 
very slightly from a perfect plane. The figures are cut in low 
relief (the lines being not more than one-twentieth of an inch 
in depth), and occupy a rectangular space four inches and one- 
fifth in length, by two and one-tenth in width. The sides of 
the stone are slightly concave. Diagonal lines, eight at one 
end and seven at the other, are drawn across the surface near 
the ends. Exterior to these are notches, twenty-five at one 
end, and twenty-four at the other. The back of the stone has 
three deep, longitudinal, grooves, and several depressions, 
evidently caused by rubbing — perhaps produced in sharpening 
the tool used for cutting the sculpture. This tablet was found 
by Mr. Guest, of Cincinnati, in December, 1841, and is pre- 
served in his collection. 
Stamps of burnt clay have been found in Mexico, the faces 
of which are covered with figures in low relief ; these, like the 
