Various uses have been assigned these and I have commented in so many of my writings on tubes, that one would tell an old story to repeat all that has been said. It suffices to say, that passing from the bead class to larger objects, the size of marbles, these may have been worn as stone beads. But these stone objects are usually made of banded slate. They may be oval in outline, such as Fig. 395, or long and slender, as Fig. 396. Again, some are grooved, others flattened, others rounded, and yet some are square. [Illustration: FIG. 395. (S. 1–3.) Collection of H. K. Deisher, Kutztown, Pennsylvania. Material: red granite. ] In Fig. 396 are seven from the Andover collection. In the lower left-hand corner is the short, small tube or large bead, with a curious depression, the purpose of which is unknown. In Mr. Deisher’s specimen, Fig. 395, the depression is longer and the groove extends from end to end. In the upper left-hand corner of Fig. 396 is a tube with a broad, shallow groove, and concave sides. Sometimes there are specimens found here and there in the country which seem to be more pipe-like than tube-like in character. I present one of these in Fig. 397, from the collection of Mr. G. P. Chandler, Knoxville, Tennessee. This specimen is of fine sandstone. The drilling makes it appear as an hour-glass. It was impossible to photograph the openings in this specimen, there being no contrast, and therefore it is drawn. One of the openings is about one fourth of an inch larger than the other. There is a band about the centre of the stone. Mr. Chandler kindly presented the specimen to me for our Andover collection. In Fig. 398, I present three large tube-like stones—perhaps pipes. This form, called by some of the early writers, “telescope,” is fairly common throughout the South. What they were used for, no one knows. I think the general explanation that they were shamans’ charms used in incantations, whereby the evil spirit was drawn from the bodies of the sick, is as good as any. We know that bone and wooden tubes were used for such purposes in historic times and these may have been also made use of in prehistoric times. [Illustration: FIG. 396. (S. 2–3.) Phillips Academy collection. ] [Illustration: FIG. 397. (S. 2–3.) Phillips Academy collection. Drawn by George P. Chandler, Knoxville, Tennessee. ] [Illustration: FIG. 398. (S. 1–2.) Stone tubes. The two upper specimens are of steatite, and the lower one is of hard clay stone. B. H. Young’s collection, Louisville, Kentucky. ] ----- Footnote 1: Bureau of American Ethnology, _Bulletin_ no. 30, pt. 1, Washington, D. C. Footnote 2: Pages 16 to 22. Footnote 3: See Boas, in 6th _Report_, Bureau of American Ethnology, pp. 399–669 (1884); Murdoch, in 9th _Report_, Bureau of American Ethnology, pp. 133–617 (1887); and _Report_ of the National Museum for 1884, pp. 307–316. Footnote 4: _American Anthropologist_, vol. IV, no. 1, p. 108.