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Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo14amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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158 THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL for the reception of the string. There is also a small set of banner stones — problematic forms which archaeologists for want of better data are given to class as ceremonials. Several boat-shaped ornaments, one or two of which hint at a use as pottery-polishers are included. A number of highly polished hematite cones may have served a like purpose. Quite unusual is a broken " bird-shaped pipes of stone, both in natural and geo- metric forms, the Mason collection excels and fills a gap in our series — for we formerly had but a single specimen. Some of the stone pipes, particularly the plain rectangular type, run the whole gamut from a specimen weighing several pounds and of gigantic size to one scarcely an inch high. Some in coarse pottery are good examples of the angu-
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.,.-,-z.--^'S.-;^£^^r-^^^^^ amulet" with bulging eyes, a type far more frequently found farther north. The Museum's old collection from Tennessee was better off than the new collection as regards the colossal stone effigy pipes found there. These pipes, usually made of steatite are massive and consist generally of well-executed carv- ings of birds and mammals. There are several in the new collection however, and in small and delicately worked lar, trumpet-shaped and straight tubular pipes. The clay pipes of the Southeast are all cruder in quality and workman- ship than those farther north, in the country of the Iroquois for instance. The Mason collection contains some huge flint knife and "spear" blades, and an unusual number, of arrow points, drills and scrapers. A selected series of bizarre forms in arrowhead chippings shows extraordinary flights of native

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