[ Prehistoric Artifacts ] 5.25in Birdstone ("The Pickett Bird"), Purple Banded Slate with Dark Green Stripes, with elegant arched neck found in Mercer Co., Ohio; collected by Frank Pickett, Berne, Randolph Co., Indiana from whom it went to Charles C. Smith of Modoc, Indiana; pictured in Townsend, Birdstones of the American Indian, Plate 262 (F), pp. 628-629, Who's Who #8, p. 201, Whos's Who #9, p. 328, and the Ohio Archaeologist, (Winter 1999), Front Cover