Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution .. . Craighead county, Arkansas, of novaculite; Eandolph county, Illinois, of granite; Cherokee county, Georgia,of quartz; and Obion county, Tennessee, of sandstone. In the fourlast mentioned the entire surfaceis quite smooth or even highly pol-ished. b. With a small perforation at thecenter. The type is shown in figures ,90 (of sandstone, from a grave in JUnion county, Illinois), and 1)7 (of |granite, from Virginia). There is |auother specimen, of sandstone, fromRed River county, Texas. c. With a secondar
Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution .. . Craighead county, Arkansas, of novaculite; Eandolph county, Illinois, of granite; Cherokee county, Georgia,of quartz; and Obion county, Tennessee, of sandstone. In the fourlast mentioned the entire surfaceis quite smooth or even highly pol-ished. b. With a small perforation at thecenter. The type is shown in figures ,90 (of sandstone, from a grave in JUnion county, Illinois), and 1)7 (of |granite, from Virginia). There is |auother specimen, of sandstone, fromRed River county, Texas. c. With a secondary depression ineach cavity. Figure 98 (yellowquartz, highly polished, from Fultoncounty, Georgia) is typical. Tliereis also one of quartzite, with a secondary depression in one side only,from Roane county, Tennessee, which may be supposed, from I Ins andother imperfections, to he unfinished. 2. Edges of concavity rubbed off binnI, These are grouped simplyby form, as the specimens from Kanawha valley, West Virginia, andnortheastern Kentucky are nearly all roughly finished, quite different. Km. 97.—Disuoidal stono, with perforation. 102 STONE ART. [ETH. ANN. 13 from the smooth or polished ones from farther south. Some are workedout into the form of a ring, and there is every stage between that formand the flat disk whose sides show no trace of pecking. Figure 99
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