. Bulletin. Ethnology. 180 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [bill. 65 One other feature of this atlatl remains to be described. Seven inches from the butt, on the flat side (pi. 82, d), are the marks of wrappings. These correspond exactly to the position '>in which there was found, lying below the atlatl and in contact with its con- vex side, the curious stone object shown in plate 83, h (placed as found in pi. 82, c; with restored wrappings in fig. 88, h). This object is of fine-grained white limestone Avith bands of natural red color encir- cling, or rather running through, a projection which
. Bulletin. Ethnology. 180 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [bill. 65 One other feature of this atlatl remains to be described. Seven inches from the butt, on the flat side (pi. 82, d), are the marks of wrappings. These correspond exactly to the position '>in which there was found, lying below the atlatl and in contact with its con- vex side, the curious stone object shown in plate 83, h (placed as found in pi. 82, c; with restored wrappings in fig. 88, h). This object is of fine-grained white limestone Avith bands of natural red color encir- cling, or rather running through, a projection which rises from one end (pi. 83, h). In the top of the projection and in the upper sur- face of the other end are shallow round depressions that appear to have been made for the reception of inlaj^s (fig. 88, h). Kunning through it below the projection is a drilled hole which held the bindings that attached it to the atlatl shaft; its weight is one ounce. Two objects from the Sayodneechee burial cave are, on the basis of the above specimen, identifiable as atlatl stones. One (pi. 83, c) is of indurated shale; its peculiar shape, with flat bottom, square ends, and high, loaf-like top, is best shoAvn in the photograph. It weighs 2^ ounces. The other (pi. 83, a) is smaller, thinner, and lighter. (one-half ounce) ; its material is mica schist. Both show distinct traces of lashings on their upper or convex sides, but not on their lower or flat surfaces. This bears out the theory that they were once bound against sticks (presumably atlatl shafts), for had they been suspended as ornaments or for any other purpose, the lashing marks would run all the way round them. For what reason these stones were attached to the back sides of atlatl shafts is not obvious; they may have served as weights to give a proper balance or to lend added poAver to the apparatus. The peculiar shape of the Cave I specimen, and the very fine finish of all three, make it seem possible, however, that they may have had
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