Cylindrical forms may be said to begin with the beads and end with the long tubular objects, which are really pipes.
Fig. 393 A (S. 1–3.) Engraved discs from Arkansas Post, Arkansas. H. L. Stoddard’s collection.
Fig. 394. (S. 1–1.) H. K. Deisher’s collection, Kutztown, Pennsylvania.
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.
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.