DOUBLE-POINTED BONE IMPLEMENTS. 



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The lake-people may have used them for catching fish as well as aquatic 

 birds. 



Figs. 39 and 40 represent such fishing-implements from Wangen.* Their 

 character is so plainly expressed by the illustrations that a description becomes 

 superfluous. There are several pointed bones of this character in the archreo- 

 logical collection of the United States National Museum. I give in Figs 41 and 

 42 representations of two of them, which were obtained from one of the pile- 

 works in the Lake of Neuchatel. However, I would not assert that their appli- 

 cation really was that of bait-holders, considering the absence of notches or 

 grooves in the middle. 



Fig. 43. — Bone arrow-head (?). Saint- Aubin. 



M. Henri Le Hon believes that somewhat curved specimens of this class 

 served as arrow-heads, being attached to the end of the shaft in a manner to 

 form both point and barb, as indicated by Fig. 43, which is copied from his 

 work.f The original, he states, was obtained from the stone-age settlement near 

 Saint- Aubin, in the Lake of Neuchatel. If it really is as represented, all doubts 

 as to its use must cease ; but the design, for aught I know, may show an imagi- 

 nary connection of point and shaft. 



Real fish-hooks, made of horn, bone, and boars' tusks, approaching 

 modern forms, and, in some cases, objects of less characteristic shapes, but 

 supposed to represent fish-hooks, are not wanting in the lacustrine deposits of 

 early date. Yet they appear to occur in limited number, only a few being 

 figured in Dr. Keller's work. Fortunately I derive some aid from the reports 

 on the International Fishery Exhibition, held at Berlin in 1880, in which 

 delineations of some Swiss hooks are given. 



* Keller : Lake Dwellings ; Vol. II, Plate XIV, Figs. 23 and 24. 



f Le Hon : L'Homme Fossile en Europe ; fifth edition ; Brussels and Paris ; 1877, p. 215. (See p. 14, first note). 



