 | 1817 - 492 pages
...together, and a large knife. The handle of the .knife was manufactured from an elk's horn, around which, where the blade had been inserted, was a ferule of silver which was uninjured or nearly so, but the blade had returned again to iron ore, but the shape and size was,... | |
 | American Antiquarian Society - United States - 1820 - 474 pages
...arrow heads, some of which were so large, as to induce a belief that they were used for spear heads. 3. The handle either of a small sword or a large knife,...been inserted, yet no iron was found, but an oxyde remained of similar shape and' size. 4. Charcoal and wood ashes, on which these articles lay, which... | |
 | American Antiquarian Society - Mammoth Cave (Ky.) - 1820 - 478 pages
...arrow heads, some of which were so large, as to induce a belief that they were used for spear heads. 3. The handle either of a small sword or a large knife,...been inserted, yet no iron was found, but an oxyde remained of similar shape and size. 4. Charcoal and wood ashes, on which these articles lay, which... | |
 | Charles Hulbert - America - 1823 - 374 pages
...arrow heads, some of which were so large, as to induce a belief that they were used for spear heads. 3. The handle either of a small sword or a large knife, made of an elk's horp ; around the end where the blade had been inserted, was a ferule of silver, which, though black,... | |
 | Adam Hodgson - Canada - 1824 - 492 pages
...heads, some of which were so large, as to induce a belief that they were used for spear-heads. " 3. The handle either of a small sword or a large knife,...black, was not much injured by time. Though the handle sho\yed the hole where the blade had been inserted, yet no iron was found, but an oxyde remained, of... | |
 | Josiah Priest - 1835 - 416 pages
...arrow heads, some of which were so large as to induce a belief that they were used for spear heads. 3. The handle, either of a small sword, or a large knife,...showed. the hole where the blade had been inserted, yet nq iron was found.. but an oxyde or rust remained, of similar shape and size. The swords of the ancient... | |
 | Alban Jasper Conant - Mississippi River Valley - 1879 - 146 pages
...large knife, made of elk's horn ; around the end, where the blade had been inserted, was a ferrule of silver, which, though black, was not much injured...blade had been inserted, yet no iron was found, but an oxide, or rust, remained, of similar shape and size." With another skeleton, in the same mound, was... | |
 | Alban Jasper Conant - Mississippi River Valley - 1879 - 152 pages
...along with stone implements, was found "the handle, either of a small sword or large knife, made of elk's horn ; around the end, where the blade had been inserted, was a ferrule of silver, which, though black, was not much injured by time ; though the handle showed the... | |
 | William Franklin Switzler - History - 1879 - 658 pages
...along with stone implements, was found " the handle, either of a small sword or large knife, made of elk's horn; around the end, where the blade had been inserted, was a ferrule of silver, which, though black, was not much injured by time ; though the handle showed the... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology - America - 1894 - 886 pages
...mound was removed and " carefully examined the contents.'' In speaking of the horn handle he says, "The handle either of a small sword or a large knife, made of elk's horn ; around the end where the blade had been inserted in a ferule, yet no iron was found, but... | |
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The handle either of a small sword or a large knife, made of an elk's horn ; around the end where the blade had been inserted, was a ferule of silver, which, though black, was not much injured by time. Though the handle showed the hole where the blade... 
