of
heavy pure hematite, which has been worked into the form of a pendant ;
notches have been made at both ends, as a form of decoration, and on
the lower, broad end, fourteen lines have been incised ; the edges are
slightly beveled and the patina indicates the antiquity of the work.
The lines have evidently been made by a flint cutting-implement11 Another
probable hematite amulet is a rudely fashioned fish effigy. Here the
appearances of eye and gill (only on one side) are evidently merely
natural irregularities of surface, which it has been conjectured
determined the cutter to add a mouth and round off the material so as
to approximate a fish-form; the hematite is black and of fine quality.
This relic comes from Cole Camp, Betnon County, Missouri.12
The larger number of these hematite artefacts are from Missouri,
southern Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, West Virginia and Kentucky, and
considerable numbers have been turned up in Tennessee, New York,
"Wisconsin, and parts of Arkansas. Only a relatively small number were
taken out of burials or graves, the majority of specimens having been
secured on or near the surface.
Shah
Jehangir relates in his memoirs that Munis Khan, son of Mihtar Khan,
presented him with a jug of jasper (jade), which had been made in the
reign of Mîrzâ Ulugh Beg Gûrgân, in the honored name of that prince. It
was a very delicate rarity and of a beautiful shape. Its stone was
exceedingly white and pure. Around the neck of the jar were carved
characters expressing the auspicious name of the Mîrzâ and the Hijra
year. Jehangir ordered them to inscribe his name and the auspicious
name of Akbar on the edge of the lip of the jar.13
»Ibid., p. 81, Fig. 41.
»Ibid., p. 91, Fig. 47.
"
Note on jade copied from the Tûzuk-i-Jahangtrt, or memoirs of Jahangir,
trans, by Alexander Rogers, London, 1909, p. 146; Orient. Trans. Fund,
N. S., â–¼oLxix.
