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awls. They were long and slender, or small and delicate, and had very 

 sharp points. Many of them had been broken while still in the ground, 

 while others had been badly damaged by the altar fires. Fig. 45 shows 

 three of the ordinary bone awls. It is unfortunate that none of the very 

 slender implements were well enough preserved to be studied. Fig. 46 

 shows fragments of needles. Ten or twelve objects, which were 

 probably used in weaving, were recovered, but all were badly broken. 

 A restoration of one is shown in Fig. 47. 



Fig. 46. 



Perforated Needles 



from Post-Hole 



in Mound 25. 



Fig. 47- 

 Fragment of a 

 Bone Shuttle. 



A few other bone tools were recovered. One of these was a fragment 

 of a human ulna over one end of which there was a small piece of meteoric 

 iron. A band of the same material, i cm wide, encircled it a short 

 distance below this. About four hundred bears' claws were found, 

 principally in the altars. 



About five hundred cut and perforated bear incisors were originally 

 placed in the various mounds of the Hopewell group. Willoughby made 

 a careful study of these ornaments, and his observations are herewith 



