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Leaf-shaped implements, perforators, arrow and spear heads, hammer stones, chipped and polished celts, pestles, 1 stone bead, 1 bone implement, fragments of potstone vessels and of pottery.
Collection from Colbert Lauderdale, St. Clair and Blount Counties, Alabama:  Rude and leaf-shaped implements, trimmed flakes, cutting tools, arrow and spear heads, 1 muller, 2 boat-shaped objects, 2 polished celts, and 2 large stone mortars.  One clay vessel with handles from a mound on the banks of the Tennessee River, near Florence, Alabama, and fragments of large wooden troughs from a cave in Blount County, locally known as the Crump Cave.  Concerning this cave, I copy the following statements from a communication by Mr. Burns:- "When the cave was first discovered (in 1840), there were 8 or 10 of these troughs, but now they are all more or less split or injured, except this one.  It is about 7 1/2 feet long, 18 or 20 inches wide, and 6 or 7 inches deep.  It has been hollowed out by the use of fire and stone or copper chisels, one of the latter having been found with the troughs, when the cave was first examined.  There were also found 12 or 15 skulls, and a large number of other bones, 6 small wooden bowls, tolerably well polished, 5 or 6 wooden trays, somewhat like a modern bread tray, but very rough and unpolished, a small copper hatchet, one copper chisel, 5 inches long, 20 copper ornaments, 6 or 7 large shells, some of which were said to hold a gallon of water,