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Title: Antiquities of the southern Indians, particularly of the Georgia tribes
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Jones, Charles C. (Charles Colcock), 1831-1893
Subjects: Indians of North America Indians of North America
Publisher: New York : D. Appleton and Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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e of the discus in the heroic age, ithas now become only a tradition—a shadowy memoryfrom a nebulous past. The carefully-prepared areasover which, from morning until night, the red athletesrushed hither and thither in the enthusiastic pursuitof this sport, at the expense of time and property andpersonal liberty, are entirely deserted now and ruggedwith the trunks and roots of hus-e forest-trees. Theanointed poles and the swift hands which launched 358 ANTIQUITIES OF THE SOUTHERN INDIANS. them, have alike crumbled into nothingness. Winnersand losers, forgetting their profits and losses, the exulta-tions and the disappointments of this exciting amuse-ment, are themselves forgotten, and but little remainsto remind us of the former existence and prevalenceof this great game, characterized by singular dexterity,severe exercise and desperate ventures, save these dis-coidal stones, often so remarkable for their symmetry,and so expressive of the skill and labor expended intheir manufacture.
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CHAPTER XVI. Stone Tubes. The tube, of which Fig. 1, Plate XXI., is a cleverrepresentation, was found in a small burial-mound inBurke County. It is made of serpentine, is thirteeninches and a quarter in length, and weighs threepounds and a half avoirdupois. The bore at one endis circular, and an inch and three-eighths in diam-eter. At the other end the commencement of theaperture is elliptical in shape, the length of the majoraxis being an inch and three-eighths, and that of theminor one inch. At this end the exterior surface hasbeen correspondingly flattened. The walls of the tubeare about three-eighths of an inch in thickness. Theperforation or bore extends longitudinally through theimplement, but with diameters gradually diminishingfrom either end, until, at the point where they meet inthe centre, the opening, which is there circular, is lessthan a quarter of an inch in diameter. In this tubethe hollow has been compassed not by drilling but bygouging out or removing the interior pa

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