PAPERS RELATING TO ANTHROPOLOGY. 



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skull and other parts of the skeleton, are clean and white — even the 

 spongy ends of the femora and other bones being perfect. 



Resting against the skull of this skeleton, with the ijoint downwards, 

 was found a fine wrought bone awl (Fig 15, a). Unfortunately the point 

 was broken off, and it was probably deposited in the mound in the con- 

 dition in which it was found. The portion recovered was probably 

 placed in the hand of the person at the time of burial. This awl, together 

 with five or six others of somewhat similar character found in the same 



a h, full size. 



Fig. 14. Pipe and flaked ornament, from mound near Xaples, 111. 



mound, were all made of the metatarsal bones of the elk {^ervus cana- 

 densis). The one marked a in Fig 15, is 9^^^ inches long, and was, when 



6. Head of same ; full size. 

 Fig. 15. Bone awl, from mound near JJaples Ul. 



perfect, about 10 inches long. The metatarsal bone was split down 

 through the center and the implement made of one of the halves. It is 



Fig. 16. Bone awl, from mound near Xaples, 111. 



finely polished and is so well preserved that, with the point restored, it 



would be as useful an implement as it was the day it was manufactured. 



Around the circumference of the lower end are cut twenty-six notches. 



The part of the bone selected for these implements and the method of 



