Archives of aboriginal knowledgeContaining all the original paper laid before Congress respecting the history, antiquities, language, ethnology, pictography, rites, superstitions, and mythology, of the Indian tribes of the United States . and two holes passing throughit, like an amulet. The shape is represented in the two preceding cuts. It is wrought out of greenstone. The relic was found in Greenville District, SouthCarolina, the ancient haunt of the Cherokees. Immediately behind it is an ovalstone (of greenstone), worn smooth by attrition; and, standing on its base by this, apestle of horn-
Archives of aboriginal knowledgeContaining all the original paper laid before Congress respecting the history, antiquities, language, ethnology, pictography, rites, superstitions, and mythology, of the Indian tribes of the United States . and two holes passing throughit, like an amulet. The shape is represented in the two preceding cuts. It is wrought out of greenstone. The relic was found in Greenville District, SouthCarolina, the ancient haunt of the Cherokees. Immediately behind it is an ovalstone (of greenstone), worn smooth by attrition; and, standing on its base by this, apestle of horn-stone, its base slightly convex. Length of the oval stone, five and ahalf inches; thickness, three and a half; height of the pestle, four and a half;diameter at the base, one and seven-eighths. The oval stone is a relic of theCongarees; the pestle is from Mississippi. Lying on the table, a little to the right ofthe pestle, are two instruments cut out of bone, of very curious form. Whether usedto mix paints, or whether talismanic charms, is a mere matter of conjecture. Some-what similar shaped objects, only of large proportions, are displayed in pictorialrepresentations of the Morais, or temples of the Sandwich Islanders. They were. found in Green County, Alabama, below the surface of the earth. Near these, in thePlate, are two pipes of steatite. The largest of these is within one-eighth of twelveinches in length, its largest diameter two and three-eighth inches, the orifice at oneend an inch and a half, at the other, one inch. The other pipe is seven inches are fragments, and are from Pickens District, South Carolina. Behind these isan axe, from the plantation on which the other Congaree relics were found, leaningagainst which, is an axe of different form, and another smaller one lying on the outlines arc represented in the two following cuts. ANTIQUITIES. 167
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