Archives of aboriginal knowledgeContaining all the original paper laid before Congress respecting the history, antiquities, language, ethnology, pictography, rites, superstitions, and mythology, of the Indian tribes of the United States . The holes bear the marks of a female screw of fine thread, but this may possiblyhave been made by some hard thread-like substance, wound around somethingcompact, and screwed tightly into the holes. The holes do not extend entirelythrough. The above rehc was brought, by Professor Brumly, from the neighborhoodof Mobile. In Fig. D, the most conspicuous object is
Archives of aboriginal knowledgeContaining all the original paper laid before Congress respecting the history, antiquities, language, ethnology, pictography, rites, superstitions, and mythology, of the Indian tribes of the United States . The holes bear the marks of a female screw of fine thread, but this may possiblyhave been made by some hard thread-like substance, wound around somethingcompact, and screwed tightly into the holes. The holes do not extend entirelythrough. The above rehc was brought, by Professor Brumly, from the neighborhoodof Mobile. In Fig. D, the most conspicuous object is a skull from the plantation of ColonelWade Hampton, adjoining the one on which the principal burial-place of theCongarees (or their predecessors) was found. Indian relics and graves also aboundhere, and for some distance on the banks of this river. The skulls have, heretofore,crumbled as soon as exposed. This, by great care, was obtained for Doctor R. , by whom it has been furnished for the purposes of this essay, with many ofthe relics here described, and who intends it for the Morton collection, in the Academyof Natural Sciences, in Philadelphia. The proportions of the skull are fine, and fullyconfirm the accounts give
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