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to believe that the utensil served for bailing. While the bottom is sufficiently 

 flat to allow the object to stand, the lower part of the excavation has a curved 

 (concave) form. Like the toy-canoe just described, this vessel consists appar- 

 ently of cedar-wood, the material having become very light in both instances — 

 almost as light as the wood of the utensils extracted from the sites of lacustrine 

 settlements in Switzerland. Unfortunately I am unable to state whether these 

 two relics were found associated with manufactures of Caucasian origin or not. 



Fig. 339.— Wooden bailing-scoop (?). Santa Cruz Island. (18326). 



Though I have called the original of Fig. 339 a bailing-scoop, I would by 

 no means assert that it was used as such. It may have been a ladle or dipper. 



Paddles. — Through the kindness of Mr. W. Wallace Tooker, referred to on 

 page 126 of this publication, I am enabled to record the discovery of a frag- 

 mentary Indian paddle. It was extracted in the winter of 1880 from the mud 

 of a creek at Canoe Place, Long Island, by a man engaged in eel-fishing. 



Canoe Place (Niamuck in the Indian language) is a low, narrow isthmus 

 between Peconic and Shinnecock Bays, and so called because the Indians were 

 in the habit of hauling their canoes across it from bay to bay. Such operations 

 are also performed by whites. Mr. Tooker has seen quite large sail-boats and 

 smacks drawn across the isthmus on wheels, its narrowest part being less than 

 half a mile in width. 



Fig. 340.— Paddle. Long Island. 



As Fig. 340 shows, this paddle, which is thirty-four inches and one-fourth 



