. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution . A mortar without a pestle would be of but slight use. Many speci-mens are found. While the greater proportion of those in the Museum 660 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1888. come from the Pacific coast, yet the Eastern States are by no meansunrepresented. 161 162. Fij;. anu Hammkks (piiiHi|ially lioiu Caliioinia). A STUDY OF PEEHISTOEIC ANTHROPOLOGY. 661 No. 161 is of syenite J 162, 163, 164, 165 are from California; 166 isfine-grained sandstone, from Ebode Island 5 168, greenstone, from Penn-sylvania; 169, syenite
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution . A mortar without a pestle would be of but slight use. Many speci-mens are found. While the greater proportion of those in the Museum 660 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1888. come from the Pacific coast, yet the Eastern States are by no meansunrepresented. 161 162. Fij;. anu Hammkks (piiiHi|ially lioiu Caliioinia). A STUDY OF PEEHISTOEIC ANTHROPOLOGY. 661 No. 161 is of syenite J 162, 163, 164, 165 are from California; 166 isfine-grained sandstone, from Ebode Island 5 168, greenstone, from Penn-sylvania; 169, syenite, from Ohio; 167 is from Alaska, 2 feet 5 incheslong, of greenstone. Nos. 171 and 172, from the Pacific coast, arelabeled as hammers with which to drive wedges to split wood. says; There is a class of small conoid-sliaped luullers made of hematite, which may havebeen used for rubbiug paints (No. 174, greenstone, Ohio). EOCK SCULPTURES OR PICTOGEAPHS. These represent sometimes human, sometimes animal, forms, andsometimes forms which can not be identified. They may have beenmade by scratching, pecking, or cutting. Occasionally they are figures are often large and complicated, and could only have beenproduced by long-continued labor, which, from their position (manytimes on naked rocks, high up on a i)recipi
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