Elongated or oval │ Plummet-shaped. (Fig. 700.) hematites. │ „ │ Egg-shaped. (Fig. 699.) „ │Egg-shaped, flattened. (Fig. 697, lower row.) „ │ Cone-shaped. (Fig. 697, upper part.) ─────────────────────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────── Edged hematites. │ Celt form, oval. (Fig. 691, specimens 5 and │ 7.) „ │ Celt form, beveled edge. (Fig. 693, lower │ right.) „ │ Axe form. (Figs. 694, 695.) ─────────────────────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────── │ Irregular forms. (Fig. 701.) │ Paint-stone hematite. (Fig. 690, second from │ the top.) Hematite being valuable, may have served several purposes and doubtless did. The small celts might have been set in the heads of war-clubs and securely gummed in place. I have no particular evidence as to this, but have always believed that some of them were so used. Occasionally, one finds hematite ornaments and hematite bicaves. The information one is able to impart with reference to hematite implements and their use is an illustration of the disadvantages under which we labor in dealing with some of our archæological problems. There are certain phases of prehistoric life with [Illustration: FIG. 695. (S. 1–2.) Two of the best grooved axes I have ever seen are shown in this figure, from the collection of Mr. Braun, East St. Louis, Illinois. There is one in the National Museum, and one in the New York Museum, each of which weighs over ten pounds, and they are nearly as symmetrical as Mr. Braun’s largest axe. ] which we are familiar. Others we know nothing of save as we learn by continuous study, by gleaning a fact here and there from the specimens themselves, and from exploration. [Illustration: FIG. 696. (S. 1–1.) A beautiful hematite axe from the collection of Henry M. Whelpley, St. Louis, Missouri. This was found in central Missouri. ] In the collection at Andover there are about four hundred hematite objects. The collections in the Smithsonian and American Museum of Natural History are much larger. Doubtless we should be quite surprised if we were able to reconstruct the past and see to what use these strange iron ore specimens were put by the natives who worked so long and laboriously to bring them into a state of perfection. Mr. C. E. Brown, reporting on the hematites of his region, states: [Illustration: FIG. 697. (S. 1–2.) Hematite cones. Collection of H. M. Whelpley, St. Louis, Missouri. Localities: Missouri, Illinois, and Arkansas. ]