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Rau, June, Ky upper.

[[stamp: S45621]]

[[underline]] Report on the Operations in the Department of Antiquities, U.S. National Museum, during June, 1885. [[/underline]]

Number of specimens entered in Record Book, for exhibition 58, for exchange 19, for storage 10, in Loan Book 1; 4 sketches made.

[[underline]] Specifications of Additions. [[/underline]]
[[blue check mark]] [[underline]] J.S. Twining, Cophenhagen, Lewis County, New York._[[/underline]] A cast of a pipe of steatite of a mottled, dark grayish-brown color. The original was found within an old earth-work at Dexter, Jefferson County, New York. A figure representing a human skeleton is incised on the back of the pipe. The cast was made in the National Museum, and the original returned. Two pipes of similar form, found, respectively, in Montgomery and Oswego Counties, New York, bear on their backs corresponding tracings of skeletons.
[[blue check mark]] [[underline]] J.R. Nissley, Mansfield, Richmond County, Ohio._[[/underline]] A large grooved stone implement of unknown use, found 1 1/2 miles east of Santa Fe, Miami County, Indiana, and a ceremonial or ornamental object of the form indicated in the subjoined sketch, made of cannel-coal.
[[image: sketch of a double headed axe]] Length, 9 inches.
According to Mr. Nissley, "the specimen was discovered that summer (1884), by men who were prospecting for gravel suitable for a road, on the farm of F.A. Crisley, Greene Township, Jay County, Indiana. Mr. Crisler and