. The Antiquarian [serial]. xtile art have been taken from moundsand graves in the United States and theobjects to be figured and described lateron were, perhaps, as he says, often usedin the manufacture of cloth. Not all ar-chaeologists believe as does Mr. Gerard Fowke, in his paper on StoneArt, to be found in the Thirteenth An-nual Report of the Buerau of Ethnology,Washington, D. C., p. 125, says: Relics ofspool-shaped, probably ornamental, ratherthan industrially useful, are not uncom-mon in copper, though very rare in figures one of these objects, which iswithout orname
. The Antiquarian [serial]. xtile art have been taken from moundsand graves in the United States and theobjects to be figured and described lateron were, perhaps, as he says, often usedin the manufacture of cloth. Not all ar-chaeologists believe as does Mr. Gerard Fowke, in his paper on StoneArt, to be found in the Thirteenth An-nual Report of the Buerau of Ethnology,Washington, D. C., p. 125, says: Relics ofspool-shaped, probably ornamental, ratherthan industrially useful, are not uncom-mon in copper, though very rare in figures one of these objects, which iswithout ornamentation, is made of sand-stone, and was found with a similar imple-ment, marked with copper stains, withtwo skeletons found lying face downward inopposite directions. With it were alsofound a shell pin and a pipe of clay*. Inthe collection of American antiquities be-longing to the University of the State ofOhio, at Columbus, are a few of these rareand pretty implements. The figures pro-duced below show the form and ornamen-. Fkj i. tation of one of them, and of several in thecollection of J. W. Tweed of Ripley, 1 is made of a fine-grained sandstone,and nicely pulished. Both ends areslightly defaced, not enough, how-ever, to destroy any of the is about one and three-quarterinches high, and its greatest diameter ateach of the oval ends is about the samein measurement. Its perforation, which isin the direction of its length, measures indiameter about three-eigths of an one of the ends is to be seen the formof a Greek cross, two wings of which are THE ANTIQUARIAN. 173 composed of five, unevenly-placed, incisedlines, while the remaining wings have but
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