Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution .. . Hemispheres. Hemispheric stones, like the cones,can receive a name only from the formand not from any known or imagineduse to which they could have been applied. All such specimens in the collec-tion, except one, are from Kanawhavalley, and of hematite; many if notmost of them have been ground downfrom the nodule, and were probablypaint stones originally; at least, thematerial rubbed from them was usedas paint while the maker had theirfinal form in view. One, however, hasbeen pecked into shape and is
Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution .. . Hemispheres. Hemispheric stones, like the cones,can receive a name only from the formand not from any known or imagineduse to which they could have been applied. All such specimens in the collec-tion, except one, are from Kanawhavalley, and of hematite; many if notmost of them have been ground downfrom the nodule, and were probablypaint stones originally; at least, thematerial rubbed from them was usedas paint while the maker had theirfinal form in view. One, however, hasbeen pecked into shape and is en-tirely without polish. In all, the baseis tlat and varies in outline fromalmost a circle to a narrow section of the stone parallel toeither axis of the base varies from alittle more to a little less than a semi-circle Typical forms, both from Bracken county, Kentucky, are illus-trated in figure Fig. 127.—Hemispheres. FOWKE] PAINT AND CEREMONIAL STONES. 115
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