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who obligingly loaned it to me for the purpose of having it drawn. The hook, 

 I am informed by that gentleman, occurred in the "Indian grave-yard" at 

 Clarksville on the Ohio River, two miles and a half above !Xew Albany, nearly 

 opposite Louisville. The graves, being situated at a bend of the river, become 



Fig. 186.— New York. 



Fro. 187.— Indiana. 



Figs. 186-188.— Bone fish-hooks. 



Fig. ISS.— Ohio. 



exposed after the spring-freshets by the crumbling away of the bank, and have 

 yielded many relics, the commercial value of which is well appreciated by the 

 residents. Of late years, however, comparatively little has been found. 



Fig. 188. — This illustration shows the form of a rather uncouth bone fish- 

 hook, which, nevertheless, bears a general resemblance to some of the lacustrine 

 hooks represented on pages 48 and 49 of this work. It has been figured by 

 Schoolcraft, who states that it was found Avithin an earthen inclosure on Cunning- 

 ham's Island, in Lake Erie (Ohio). "Within these inclosures have been found 

 stone axes, pipes, ^perforators, bone fish-hooks, fragments of pottery, arrow-heads, 

 net-sinkers, and fragments of human bones."''' 



Fig. 189. — This figure, representing a large bone hook, is taken from Dr. C. 

 C. Abbott's " Primitive Industry," before quoted.f The specimen is in possession 

 of Mr. W. Wallace Tooker, of Sag Harbor, Long Island, New York, and was 

 found by him in a shell-heap in the neighborhood of Sag Harbor. It is the only 

 object of this kind discovered by that gentleman in the course of his explorations 

 of shell-heaps in Long Island. 



Fig. 190. — The original, a fine bone hook with deeply-notched shank, belongs 

 to Dr. J. F. Snyder, of Virginia, Cass County, Illinois. I am indebted to him 



* Schoolcraft: Historical and Statistical Information, respecting the History, Condition and Prospects of the 

 Indian Tribes of the United States; Vol. II, Philadelphia, 1852; p. 87; Fig. 4 on Plato 38. 



t Fig. 193 on p. 208. 



