Vessels for the Peabody Museum.

The Peabody Museum has recently acquired about thirty interesting soapstone vessels which were collected in West Virginia by a physician interested in ethnology. Some of them are mere rudely shaped stones, and others are finished and polished dishes which give evidence of skillful workmanship. The vessels are of different shapes and sizes, the circular dishes varying from about four to twelve inches in diameter. They are believed to have been made by the Algonquin Indians, who once inhabited the country in which the soapstone quarries lie.

The Museum has purchased also, with the vessels, a collection of arrow heads, axes, ceremonial instruments and ornaments. Most of these are made of flint or slate, and were evidently fashioned with extreme care.