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the simplest and most primitive character. His hunting- bow may 

 have suggested the use of a piece ot bent wood, which, being 

 strung with the warp threads one above the other, the thin strands 

 of hair which constituted the weft were manipulated in something 

 like the following manner : One of these strands was taken 

 and one end ot it passed outward between the middle and 

 upper warp threads, around the upper thread, forward and down- 

 ward across it and the middle one, outward between the middle 

 and lower threads, around the lower one, forward and upward 

 across this and the middle one, again passed outward between the 

 middle and upper threads, then around the upper one and outward 

 again between it and the middle one, around behind the middle 

 thread and forward between it and the lower one. The free ends 

 of the strand, one on each side of the centre warp thread, were 

 then united and drawn forward with one hand, while with the 

 thumb and finger of the other both warp and weft were brought 

 firmly together. Succeeding strands having been treated in a 

 similar manner and connected with each other by a lateral or side- 

 long pressure, the result was a section of hair fringe with a selvage 

 of about ^ of an inch in width. Figure loa in Plate II, repre- 

 sents a 3-ply strand of twine woven loosely through a warp of 

 three threads, to illustrate the weaving of the hair fringe in 

 Fig. 10. 



The shell beads or discs are a little over ^s of an inch in 

 diameter, and appear to have been made from the shells of the 

 Unio. 



In looking over the bones belonging to the same skeleton, 

 which Mr. Boucher had collected for the purpose of re-interring 

 them, Dr R. W. Neill, of Aylmer, now of Balmoral, Manitoba, 

 picked out a segment of the lumbar vertebrae of an Indian that was 

 transfixe'd by a bone arrowhead. Dr. Neill very generously pre- 

 sented this interesting relic to me, thereby furnishing us with ^ 

 striking example of the deadly nature of this aboriginal weapon, 

 and a graphic illustration of the manner in which the deceased 

 warrior met his death. This bone belonged to the Indian 

 unearthed by Mr. Frank Boucher on the Lighthouse Island. The 

 shank of the arrowhead, which had pierced the spinal cord from 

 behind, is broken off", doubtless by the falling of the body, the 



