[135] The handsome illustrations presented in the accompanying plates were mostly drawn by Miss Kate C. Osgood, who has no superior in this class of work.
[136] Jones: Aboriginal Remains of Tennessee, pp. 42–3.
[137] Jones: Antiquities of the Southern Indians, pp. 373–5.
[138] Anderson, in the Cincinnati Quarterly Journal of Science, October, 1875, p. 378.
[139] Abbott: Primitive Industry, pp. 70, 72, and 73.
[140] Ibid., p. 207.
[141] Since this paragraph has been in type I have seen the specimen, and find that the looped figure is clearly defined.
[142] Kingsborough: vol. II, Plate 20.
[143] Let any one who thinks lightly of such a work undertake, without machinery or well-adapted appliances, to cut a groove or notch even, in a moderately compact specimen of Busycon, and he will probably increase his good opinion of the skill and patience of the ancient workman if he does nothing else.
[144] E. G. Squier: Serpent Symbol, page 69, quoting MSS. of J. H. Payne.