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that may have been the temporary or more or less permanent 

 occupant ot these prehistoric camping- g-rounds. 



The palaeolithic knife found at Raymond's Point and described 

 in the former paper on the " Archaeolog^y of Lake Deschenes," as 

 a " squaw's knife," is without doubt of Indian origin. This 

 implement is also known as a " woman's knife" and is very otten 

 mistaken for a spear-head which it very much resembles. 



This particular form of knife is not by any means peculiar to 

 this part of the American continent, for it is found on the village 

 sites of western Ontario and even as far south as San Geronimo, 

 in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Mexico, according to an art'cle on 

 Aztec relics, by Mrs. Wm. Stuart, in the Onta^'o Archajological 

 Report of 1899. It is also met with among^st aborig-inal tribes in 

 the remotest parts of the world. 



Since the spear, as a weapon, is supposed to hive been un- 

 known to our Indians, it is just possible that this implement may 

 represent the survival of a knife-form that was, and is to-day, used 

 by primitive peoples to serve the purposes of both knife and spear- 

 head. 



As an interesting- instance, in this connection, of the same 

 instrument serving different purposes in a rude condition of the 

 arts, H. N. Moseley, Naturalist to the Challeng-er Expedition, 

 informs us that the obsidian-headed spears ot the Admiralty 

 Islanders are used as knives, being cut off just below the ornamental 

 mounting which acts as a handle. Col. A. Lane Fox also 

 observes, in reference to these same implements, that " the shapes 

 of the obsidian spear-heads found, just as they happened to flake 

 off, are interesting- as showing the natural origin of such forms 

 and the remark that these spear-heads are used as knives reminds 

 us of like customs in Africa where the Kaffirs, the Watusi described 

 by Grant, the Fans of the Gaboon and others use their iron spear- 

 heads in a similar manner and which accounts for the form of 

 knife and spear-head amongst savages being so commonly the 

 same. 



Since the publication of former reports, in the Ottawa 

 Naturalist, upon centers of Indian occupation on Lake Des- 

 chenes, I have had the good fortune to discover two more ancient 

 camping sites on the Ottawa River, one at Squaw Bay, in Tetreau- 



