Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution .. . Fig. 96.—Discoiilal stone, with perforation. one spot,where it shows marks of use as a hammer or pestle—it has beenused also as a mortar, the edges of the concavity being much chippedand broken; one each from Craighead county, Arkansas, of novaculite; Eandolph county, Illinois, of granite; Cherokee county, Georgia,of quartz; and Obion county, Tennessee, of sandstone. In the fourlast mentioned the entire surfaceis quite smooth or even highly pol-ished. b. With a small perforation at thecenter. The type
Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution .. . Fig. 96.—Discoiilal stone, with perforation. one spot,where it shows marks of use as a hammer or pestle—it has beenused also as a mortar, the edges of the concavity being much chippedand broken; one each from Craighead county, Arkansas, of novaculite; Eandolph county, Illinois, of granite; Cherokee county, Georgia,of quartz; and Obion county, Tennessee, of sandstone. In the fourlast mentioned the entire surfaceis quite smooth or even highly pol-ished. b. With a small perforation at thecenter. The type is shown in figures ,90 (of sandstone, from a grave in JUnion county, Illinois), and 1)7 (of |granite, from Virginia). There is |auother specimen, of sandstone, fromRed River county, Texas. c. With a secondary depression ineach cavity. Figure 98 (yellowquartz, highly polished, from Fultoncounty, Georgia) is typical. Tliereis also one of quartzite, with a secondary depression in one side only,from Roane county, Tennessee, which may be supposed, from I Ins andother imperfections, to he
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