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 . It is a relic of the Congarees. Returning to the front of the table, we next find theresmall circular stones, one and one-eighth, one and a half, and one and seven-eighthsinches in circumference. These were probably used in the games of chance, in whichLawson found the Congaree women engaged, in the absence of their husbands. Theyare rehcs of the Congarees. I
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 . It is a relic of the Congarees. Returning to the front of the table, we next find theresmall circular stones, one and one-eighth, one and a half, and one and seven-eighthsinches in circumference. These were probably used in the games of chance, in whichLawson found the Congaree women engaged, in the absence of their husbands. Theyare rehcs of the Congarees. In the rear, and between two of these, is a curiously shaped object, which is alsoon the left-hand comer of Fig. D, though somewhat obscured in the representation by. 166 ANTIQUITIES. a paper lubel pasted upon it. It lias a hollow cavity, and two holes passing throughit, like an amulet. The shape is represented in the two preceding cuts. It is wrought out of greenstone. The relic was found in Greenville District, SouthCarolina, the ancient haunt of the Cherokees. Immediately behind it is an ovalstone (of greenstone), worn smooth by attrition; and, standing on its base by this, apestle of horn-stone, its base slightly convex. Length of the oval stone, five and ahalf inches; thickness, three and a half; height of the pestle, four and a half;diameter at the base, one and seven-eighths. The oval stone is a relic of theCongarees; the pestle is from Mississippi. Lying on the table, a little to the right ofthe pestle, are two instruments cut out of bone, of very curious form. Whether usedto mix paints, or whether talismanic charms, is a mere matter of conjecture. Some-what similar shaped objects, only of large proportions, are displayed in pictorialrepres
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