. The Antiquarian [serial]. linage from Mound Number 3. Long Island, Roane county, Tennessee. THETHE INDIAN PLANE. ANTIQUARIAN. 67 Some time ago Mr. R. B. Averill, of Port-land, Oregon, sent me, for identification, aflat, waterworn pebble artificially notchedon one side, which he styled an IndianPlane. Having been found near the wat-ers edge on the Columbia river, and bear-ing so striking a resemblance to the extem-porized net-sinkers so numerous about thefishing places on water courses in New Jer-sey, Pennsylvania and elsewhere, 1 at oncepronounced it an unfinished net-sinker: or,a finished s
. The Antiquarian [serial]. linage from Mound Number 3. Long Island, Roane county, Tennessee. THETHE INDIAN PLANE. ANTIQUARIAN. 67 Some time ago Mr. R. B. Averill, of Port-land, Oregon, sent me, for identification, aflat, waterworn pebble artificially notchedon one side, which he styled an IndianPlane. Having been found near the wat-ers edge on the Columbia river, and bear-ing so striking a resemblance to the extem-porized net-sinkers so numerous about thefishing places on water courses in New Jer-sey, Pennsylvania and elsewhere, 1 at oncepronounced it an unfinished net-sinker: or,a finished sinker for a peculiarly fashionedfish This off-hand explanation was not satis-factory to Mr. Averill, who has passedtwenty years on the Pacific slope engageda great part of that time in collecting, anddealing in, Indian relics, and he thereuponsent me a series of twenty similar stones,varying in dimensions from two to sixinches in length by one and a half to fourinches in width, and a third of an inch ormore in thickness, with the request to givethem a careful examination. Fig-. 1 is a fairaverage representation of the entire are all common flat pebbles, of hardvolcanic rocks, rounded and smoothed, likeall beach pebbles, by attrition and action of water currents; and from one edge of eacha semi-circular notch had been struck, orworked, out; and this abraded indentation,on close inspection, in almost everyone ofthem, showed unmistakably the effect ofwear from continued use. With the specimens was the followingcommunication from Mr. Averill, in sup-port of his opinion that these homely ob-jects were designed and us
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