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Title: Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution
Year: 1846 (1840s)
Authors: Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents United States National Museum. Report of the U.S. National Museum Smithsonian Institution. Report of the Secretary
Subjects: Smithsonian Institution Smithsonian Institution. Archives Discoveries in science
Publisher: Washington : Smithsonian Institution
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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Fig. 26.Plummets and Sinkees. 654 EEPOKT OP NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1888. No. 316 is yellow-brown ferruginous quartz, from Tennessee; 117,brown ferruginous quartz, from Tennessee; 118, dark greenstone, froma mound in Illinois. In some specimens the cavities on the sides arecarried deeper than in others, and their center marked by a perforation.Nos. 119 and 120 are quartzite, from Ohio. Other specimens are with-out the dish-like cavity. No. 12L is quartzite, from Georgia. Somespecimens, similar in every other appearance, are diminutive, scarcelymore than an inch in diameter. No. 122 is argillite, from Pennsylvania;and curious to remark, relics presenting the same appearance havebeen made of broken clay vessels, which, except tbe hole, resemble thespiudlewhorl. The writer found a specimen of this kind in a prehistoricworkshop in Brittany, France. It has been suggested that they wereused as paint cups, and possibly this may be true.
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Pig. 27. DlSCOIDAL STONKS (J). When in Italy I remarked a game which had a great similarity tothe chungkee of the Indians. In 1889 I wrote to my friend, E. Mancini,for a description, whicli he gave in the following: LETTER FROM R. MANCINI, ORVIETO, ITALY, TO MR. WILSON. ~ » * * * * * * The play, made by rolliug discs at a mark, which you saw in one of the streets out-side the city of Orvieto, has several names. It is called Euzzola, or Ruzzoletta whenplayed by the children with small discs; but if the play be by adults and with largediscs it is called Euzzolone, or sometimes Giuoco del Formaggio, or Play of theCheese, because when played by the peasants or shepherds they use their discs of A STUDY OF PEEHISTORIC ANTHROPOLOGY, 655 cheese, betting one cheese against another. It is usually played by two persons,but may be by four. They divide themselves into opposite parties, and each onealternately throws the cheese or the disc, rolling it on its periphery at the distantmark or peg. Th

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