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K7 upper Rau May 1887

[[underline]] Report on the Operations in the Department of Antiquities, United States National Museum, during May 1887. [[/underline]]

Number of specimens entered in Record-Book, for exhibition 169, in Loan-Book 4.

[[underline]] Specification of Additions. [[/underline]]

[[underline]] Accession 19075. [[/underline]] [[red check]]
[[underline]] W. Coppage, Winfield, Cowley County, Kansas._ [[/underline]] A copper celt-gouge found at Sunnydale near Georgian Bay, Lake Huron, Ontario, Canada. Purchased.

[[underline]] Accession 18907. [[/underline]] [[red check]]
[[underline]] J. W. Emmert, Bristol, Sullivan County, Tennessee._ [[/underline]] Collections from East Tennessee and North Carolina: 1._ A polished celt, 3 mullers, a clay pipe, a string of very small shell beads, a carved shell gorget, 2 strings of glass beads, and a cylindrical bead of brass, ^ [[insert]]all[[/insert]] from an Indian burial-ground on Watauga River, Tennessee. Five mullers (one of hematite) from an old Indian town on Buffalo Creek, Carter County, Tennessee. Sixty-seven arrow-heads, 2 mullers, 2 chisels, an object of slate, shaped like a double pick and grooved in the middle, a small cup-shaped natural formation artificially pierced with a hole for suspension, 2 pierced tablets (fragmentary), a carved stone pipe (broken), and one-half of a tube of slate, all from an Indian burial-ground on Cherokee Island, Sullivan County, Tennessee. Seven bears' teeth (unperforated), 3 shell pins (so-called), 3 shell beads, and a columella of a large shell, probably [[underline]]Pyrula perversa[[/underline]], all from an Indian burial-ground in Carter County,

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