Viewing page 38 of 40

This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.

^[[File with Rau's June report June Dr. C. Rau.]]

[[red underline]] J.S. Twining, Copenhagen, Lewis County, New York. [[/red 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.

[[red underline]] J.R. Nissley, Mansfield, Richmond County, Ohio. [[/red 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 axe head]] Length, 9 inches.

According to Mr. Nissley, "the specimen was discovered last summer (1884), by men who were prospecting for gravel suitable for a road, on the farm of F.A. Crisler, Greene Township, Jay County, Indiana. Mr. Crisler and others informed me that a plain cylinder-shaped pipe (?), made of hard stone of a light color, occurred with the tablet. Both specimens were found from 4 to 5 feet below the surface during the first day's digging, which also exposed 16 human skeletons. I could learn of no other relics having been discovered, excepting a clay vessel, said to be about the size of a gallon measure, and taken out in fragments." There is in the National Museum a cast of a somewhat similar object of