Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution .. . 126 STONE ART. [ in figure 152, is of granite, from Vernon county, Wisconsin, and thecollection embraces another specimen, of saudstone, from Kanawhavalley, West Virginia. According to Gillman, bird shape stones were worn on the head bythe Indian women, but only after Abbott* quotes Whittlesey to the effect that they were worn by Indian womento denote pregnancy, and from William Peun that when squaws wereready to marry they wore something on their heads to indicate the


Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution .. . 126 STONE ART. [ in figure 152, is of granite, from Vernon county, Wisconsin, and thecollection embraces another specimen, of saudstone, from Kanawhavalley, West Virginia. According to Gillman, bird shape stones were worn on the head bythe Indian women, but only after Abbott* quotes Whittlesey to the effect that they were worn by Indian womento denote pregnancy, and from William Peun that when squaws wereready to marry they wore something on their heads to indicate the Fig. 152.—Bird-shape stone. Jones3 quotes from De Bry that the conjurers among the VirginiaIndians wore a small, black bird above one of their ears as a badge oftheir office. Shaft Rubbers. The shaft of an arrow is straightened by wetting and immersing it inhot sand and ashes, and bringing into shape by the hand and eye. Toreduce the short crooks and knobs it is drawn between rwo rough gritstones, each of which has a slight groove in it; coarse sand is also usedto increase the Again, a rock has a groove cut into it as wide as the shaft and two orthree times as deep. Into this the crooked part of the shaft is forced,and by heating or steaming becomes flexible, and can be easily madestraight, which shape it will retain when A somewhat different device for the same purpose appears in theBureau collection. It is illustrated in figure 153 (of fine sandstone);there was another part to correspond with that shown. The specimenis from Monongahela, Pennsylvania. Tubes. As the


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