Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution .. . Fig 129.—Paint stone Tlie specimen illustrated in figure 128 (yellow quartz, from a moundin Kanawha valley) is intermediate between cones and sides are polished, while the fiat bottom androunded top are roughened. As it has faint redstains, it may have been used as a pamt-muller. Paint Stones The articles known as paint stones scarcely comeFig m-Henmphere. under the head of implements. Some of the hema-tite pieces are incipient celts, hemispheres, or cones; but most of themwere used me
Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution .. . Fig 129.—Paint stone Tlie specimen illustrated in figure 128 (yellow quartz, from a moundin Kanawha valley) is intermediate between cones and sides are polished, while the fiat bottom androunded top are roughened. As it has faint redstains, it may have been used as a pamt-muller. Paint Stones The articles known as paint stones scarcely comeFig m-Henmphere. under the head of implements. Some of the hema-tite pieces are incipient celts, hemispheres, or cones; but most of themwere used merely to furnish paint, at any rate until rubbed down quitesmali. They are of every degree of firmness,some being as brittle as dry clay, others likeiron. Most pieces in the collection are fromKanawha valley, but others are from south-eastern Tennessee, northeastern Arkansas, andCaldwell county, North Carolina. From thelast-named section, as well as from Chestercounty, South Carolina, and McMmn county,Teunessee, come pieces of graphite more or less rubbed; and one hasbeen sent in from El
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