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the manner of a rope-maker's reed for twisting fibres in making 
twine, but the entire absence of wear inside the holes appears 
to be fatal to this idea. For the same reason the notion that 
they were used for condensing raw hide or sinews for bow- 
strings, in a manner analogous to wire drawing, cannot be 
entertained. 
Schoolcraft remarks that these objects may have been ''one of 
the forms of those ancient badges of authority, to which, as a 
generic term, the modern Algonquins apply the name Na-he- 
kow-d-gun. The native tribes, from our first acquaintance with 
them, evinced their fondness for insignia of this kind. The 
modern medal is the result of a compliance on our part with 
this pa,ssion." 
Gorgets " have been met with in the States of Virginia, 
Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Illinois, and Indiana. Ornaments 
resembling the gorgets, made of shell, are described as having 
been worn by the "priests" of some of the southern tribes of 
Indians, and by the Indians of Virginia. 
No. 34 is a fragment of drilled clay slate from Ohio. No. 35 
is a piece of worked clay slate, perhaps part of a gorget, found 
in Ohio. 
B 32. 
Upon Tablets 25 to 32 are some flint flakes, and arrow- and 
spear-heads, found upon the surface, or at an inconsiderable 
depth, in Mound No. 3, '* Mound City." Some of these, such 
as c, upon Tablet 29, have been exposed to the action of fire. 
It is probable that these specimens are relics of the mound- 
builders. They are all of the triangular form ; not a single 
barbed specimen occurs among them. 
B 33. 
The bone tube, upon Tablet i ; the pieces of carved bone, 
upon Tablets 2 to 4 ; the fossil shark's teeth, upon Tablets 5 
and 6 ; the reptilian teeth, upon Tablets 7 to 10 ; the terra-cotta 
tablets, upon Tablet 1 1 ; the discoidal stones, upon Tablets 1 2 
to 13 ; and the pieces of worked stone, upon Tablets 14 to 18, 
are noticed at pages 118 — 120. The pearl beads, on Tablet No. 
19, are much calcined. Great quantities of pearl beads were 
found in the " altar" mounds, but they were in such a frail state 
that few could be removed. The bone implements upon Tablet 
