. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. this tool is identical with a bow-drill, (Fig. F,) while the larger opening, in which it is intended to place the to- bacco, was hollowed out in the usual manner. The other pipe (No. 288) appears to be an attempt to work in clay. Nos. 244 to 249.—Sinkers. I am not positive whether No. 209 (also No. 244) was used as a sinker. Nos. 250 to 259.—Pestles. These instruments are of different shapes, and are frequently found. But, be- cause mortars
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. this tool is identical with a bow-drill, (Fig. F,) while the larger opening, in which it is intended to place the to- bacco, was hollowed out in the usual manner. The other pipe (No. 288) appears to be an attempt to work in clay. Nos. 244 to 249.—Sinkers. I am not positive whether No. 209 (also No. 244) was used as a sinker. Nos. 250 to 259.—Pestles. These instruments are of different shapes, and are frequently found. But, be- cause mortars are found but rarely, we must suppose that in early times, as at the present, the pestles were used mostly to crush acorns on a flat stone, around I which was placed a low, bottomless basket, of about IJ feet in diameter, into which were thrown the acorns to be crushed, (Fig. C.) Fig. The slender pestles (Nos. 250 to 252) I think may also have been used as war-clubs, in favor of which supposition is their shape, and also the fact that they have been frequently broken by a side-pressure. Nos. 260 to 262.—Objects of the uses of which I have no very decidea opinion. They may have been used as hammers to break shells of acorns. No. 263.—Used to rub colors. Nos. 264 to 266.—Probably used to rub skins. The latter are not fin. nished yet, thus showing the process of making them. But of the use of No. 266 I am not Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents; United States National Museum. Report of the U. S. National Museum; Smithsonian Institution. Report of the Secretary. Washington : Smithsonian Institution
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