Fig. 119.—Plummet.
Fig. 120.—Plummet, end ground flat.
Fig. 121.—Plummet.
[Figure 122] represents a piece of smoothly dressed steatite from Desha county, Arkansas, with a two-thirds round section, the ends rounded, with a groove near one end, which may be classed with the plummets. There are pieces of sandstone from the same locality which connect this pattern with the simpler “boat-form” stones, except that the flat side is ground smooth instead of being hollowed. This is only one of numerous examples where the shapes of implements whose “typical forms” seem utterly dissimilar merge into one another so gradually that no line of demarkation can be drawn.
Fig. 122.—Plummet, cylindrical.
Cones.
Fig. 123.—Cone.