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
5. Compact blackstone, Livingston County.
6. Steatite, Madison County.
7. Greenstone, Franklin County.
8. Hard red material, Livingston County.
9. Blooded quartz, Hancock County.
10. Slate, black, Trigg County.
11. Blooded quartz, Oldham County.
12. Green banded slate, Madison County.
13. Quartz, Trigg County.
These specimens, found in Kentucky, are beautiful, highly finished, and
represent the acme of stone-age art in the problematical class. The
double-winged crescents at the top on either side are to be noted. Also
the fine crescent, no. 5. No. 9, of blooded quartz, is a type somewhat
common in the South, but very seldom found in the Ohio Valley and never
in the East, or west of a line drawn between Omaha, Nebraska, and
Dallas, Texas.
No. 13 is of that same beautiful blooded quartz, which material was
selected by the natives because of its fine texture and brilliant
colors. This plate emphasizes that while winged objects, as a general
proposition, may be somewhat alike, yet in the detailed form and
material they are different, and those of one section can be
distinguished from those of another.
[Illustration:
FIG. 344. (S. 1–4.) Problematical forms. B. H. Young’s collection,
Louisville, Kentucky.
]
[Illustration:
FIG. 345. (S. 1–1.) Ceremonial axe of stone. Found at Thornhill Lake,
Volusia County, Florida. From “Certain Sand Mounds, St. Johns River,
pt. II.” This is one of the angular Southern forms, with expanded
wings. It is not of the butterfly type. It reminds one very strongly
of a Wisconsin-Michigan form which is typified in Fig. 343. There
are few of the winged stones found in Georgia, Florida, or Alabama.
]
Figs. 343, 349, 357 illustrate the Wisconsin types. Other specimens from
Ohio, Indiana, etc., illustrate the more widespread Wisconsin types.
It often happens that a later tribe makes use of an object of ancient
form and special purpose, for some service totally foreign to the mind
of the original owner.
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