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Show 66 I picked up also a corresponding instrument of the same character, made of a very dark, mottled flint. It was not altered after having been broken, as may bese « n by the fractured upper edge; but the rounded lower edge is sharpened, though not so acutely as the sides of the preceding. A large spear- head shaped from a flinty, light gray sandstone, was found on the plains near Denver. An interesting specimen is the bottom of a steatite dish or bowl, evidently once designed for heating water. It is elliptical^ the axes being respectively 5 and 3 J inches. The upper portions of the brim have been broken away, and the sides which remain, measure only about 2 inches in height. The specimen was dug up recently on the Denver plains. In Southern Colorado many implements were picked up during the summer of 1875, and in one locality, near Eosita, I discovered another spot where arrows had been manufactured. In describing it I will quote from the New York Herald of July 3,1875: About six miles from Rosita ( to the north), on the hillside on which we encamped, were picked np various pieces of stone weapons of all forms and made of many different kinds of rock. From the appearance of these fragments it may be inferred that this WM once a locality where they were manufactured, as no perfect specimens were obtained, all being unfinished or imperfect. We found several here in a half- finished condition. These, together with those described above, were undoubtedly made by the ancient Ute Indians, and some, probably, by the old Arrapahoes. |