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Fig. 8 is a large one, and has some peculiar zigzag markings on it, the 

 significance of which is not known. Bone fish-hooks, as represented 



Fig. 8. 



in Fig. 9, show the race to have lived by the product of the Little 

 Miami River as well as by the chase. Bone harpoons, similar in make 



to those still in use by the Esquimaux,* show 

 further that they derived sustenance from the 

 river, while Fig. 10 shows a needle made of a 

 fish-spine (c) with a large hole in one end, a deer- 

 bone (b), used perhaps as an awl, and a turkey- 

 bone (a), also used as an awl. 



Besides the useful articles of bone that have 

 been mentioned, there are others used more for 

 ornament. The beads have already been referred 

 to. A peculiarly-shaped piece of elk-horn, with 

 five teeth and a perforated handle, has been 

 found, and has been called a comb. Fig. 11 f 

 represents it, and a striking resemblance between it and one from 

 the Swiss lake-dwellings (Fig. 12 J) maybe noticed. Another piece, 

 the use of which is not known, but which is supposed to have been 



Fig. 9. 



Fig. 10. 



perhaps some sort of flute or whistle, is shown in Fig. 13. It is a 

 hollow piece of bone, with six holes of different sizes made in one side, 



* Lubbock, "Prehistoric Times," p. 504, Fig. 219. 



f Copied from the " Journal of the Cincinnati Society of Natural History," vol. iii, 

 p. 132. 



\ Keller, " Lake-Dwellings," plate 28, Fig. 8. 



