Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Archeological Specimens From New England
In the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, is a pestle of this type from a burial place at Burrs Hill, near Providence, Rhode Island; it is inches long, and is quite cylindrical (see fig. 1, a). The animal head is somewhat pitted, being the original pecked surface of the stone, while the pecked surface of the rest of the cylinder has been polished down. The ears are prominent, but the eyes are not represented.
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