Annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . custom or need. Si)ecimens were collected illustrating everystep from the beginning to the end of the iirocess. Along with the otherforms, several picks and chisels of the variety used in cutting soap,stone were discovered. Their presence is explained by the fact thatnear at hand occur outcrops of soapstone, and an ancient quarry hasbeen observed near the Virginia end of the bridge and within a stonesthrow of Little falls. Hammerstones, whe stones, pestles, mortars, aswell as fragments of ordinary Potoma
Annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . custom or need. Si)ecimens were collected illustrating everystep from the beginning to the end of the iirocess. Along with the otherforms, several picks and chisels of the variety used in cutting soap,stone were discovered. Their presence is explained by the fact thatnear at hand occur outcrops of soapstone, and an ancient quarry hasbeen observed near the Virginia end of the bridge and within a stonesthrow of Little falls. Hammerstones, whe stones, pestles, mortars, aswell as fragments of ordinary Potomac pottery and pieces of soapstoneornaments and vessels, were found. .vould .seem that every form ofrelic known in the Potomac region, iiom the rudest turtleback to themost finished tool of polished stone, occurs on this site—a site, it shouldbe remarked, so modern in its period of occupancy that it is still sweptby the annual freshets. Numerous illustrations of articles from thissite will appear in subsequent sections of this paper. Bureau of ethnologv FIFTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT UNSPECIALIZEH RHYOLITE BLADES, MAINLY FROM ANACOSTIA VILLAQE-STEF (ACTUAL SIZE) BUREAU OF ETHNOLOGY FIFTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT PL. XLV
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