man named Joseph Brown was plowing a fewyears ago, when the plow turned up several queer-looking objects which ex-cited his curiosity. They turned out to be celts or turtle-backs. There werean even twenty of them cached here within a space about the size and shape of ahalf bushel. They were not… … thick at the thickest point. One side is nearly flat and the other convex, withthe greatest elevation at about half way between the center and edge, somewhatlike an abelone shell. In another fine specimen the crown of the convexity isalmost exactly in the center. A secondary chipping of the edges…
Ethnology · Archaeology
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