The stone age in North America, vol. 1 of 2Moorehead, Warren K. (Warren King)
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The stone age in North America, vol. 1 of 2
Moorehead, Warren K. (Warren King)
Indians of North America -- Antiquities; Stone age -- North America
_Left side of diagram_ _Right side of diagram_
A. Two specimens in 305. A. 311.
B. 298, 296. B. 296.
C. 295, 381. C. 381.
D. 371, 373. D. 376.
E. 299, 300. E. 301, lower specimen.
F. 301, several in 348. F. 330, central specimen.
G. 338, lower specimen 355. G. 338, lower specimen.
H. 305, 308. H. 344, specimens 1 and 3.
I. 355, 357–8. I. 351, lower specimen (centre).
J. 353. J. 353, right specimen.
K. 332, nos. 7 and 9 of 344. K. 344, no. 10.
L. 314, top row at the right; L. 344, specimens 1 and 3.
349, bottom specimen to left.
M. 386. M. 362.
N. 315. N. 366.
O. 386. O. 363.
These two hundred and twenty-one outlines are of different objects in
various museum collections, not quite one third being on exhibition in
Andover and the others in the Peabody Museum, Harvard University; Ohio
State Archæological and Historical Society, Columbus; the Field Museum,
Chicago; Smithsonian at Washington; the Dominion Museum at Toronto; the
Art Museum at Cincinnati, etc. I have omitted the locality of these, but
reference to the illustrations presented in this chapter of specimens
from all over the country, will give one an idea of the range.
Each row is lettered. At the top, A, are the simple forms, pecked and
ground and perhaps polished, but not perforated. A begins with the oval
and ends in the tablet form with four concave sides. B also begins with
the oval, is perforated, and ends in the pendant form. Under the 10th
specimen, counting from the left end of row B, I have drawn a small
arrow indicating that this form may be traced through another series.
This is lettered row C. The sixth specimen, counting from the right
towards the left in row B, is a spade-shaped gorget. This may have
suggested the true spade form. I have drawn an arrow from this specimen
and inserted a number of spud-shaped objects which are lettered D.
Row E begins with the simple oval, again, but is doubly perforated. This
row ends in the flat tablet, concave sides with two perforations on
either side of the centre. The seventh specimen, counting from right to
left in this row, has underneath it two arrows, which indicate two other
series. The first, row F, ending in the ridged form; second, row H,
exhibiting progression in the concavity in the sides until it terminates
in the double crescent, or problematical form with curved arms. Opposite
the short series F is another series under the same letter, beginning
with the second specimen from right to left in row E. This form of
tablet may be carried through the series to a highly specialized form
with angular depressions on either side of the centre.
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