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THE ECONOMIC MOLLUSCA OF ACADIA. 



can be read at present by only a single Indian. The only 

 other evidence of its use in Acadia that the writer has 

 been able to find, occurs in a paper by Professor L. W. 

 Bailey, in No. VI. of this Society's Bulletin, entitled, 

 " On the Eelics of the Stone Age in New Brunswick." He 

 mentions that some shell beads were found with the bones of 

 a child upon the Tobique River. He says, — " They would 

 appear to have been derived from the common fresh water 

 Clams {Unto and Anodonta), and, considering the circum- 

 stances under which they were found, were probably of true 

 Indian and domestic manufacture, rather than imported or 

 imitative products, such as were abundantly made for purposes 

 of barter, in more thickly settled localities." 



The Molluscs, from the shells of which white wampum 

 was chiefly made, are entirely wanting upon the shores of 

 Acadia, though that from which the purple was made, viz.: 

 the species we are now considering, was abundant; yet 

 Lescarbot gives us to understand that neither kind was made 

 in Acadia. He did not know, however, from what the purple 

 wampum was made; he supposed it was from Jet or a kind of 

 wood. The Quahog must have been extensively used by 

 them as food, and it seems strange that they should not have 

 learned from the tribes to the south to make it themselves. 



Works of Ekference. 



Wampum and its History. Bv Ernest Ingersoli. American 

 Naturalist, Vol. XVII., 1883, pp. 407- 470. 



Aboriginal Shell-money. By R. E. C. Stearns. Proc Cal. 

 Academy, Vol. V., pp. 113-1:20. Also American Nat- 

 uralist, Vol, III., 1869, pp. 1-5. 



Fishery for Quahogs, Fishery Industries of the U. S. Sec. 

 V", Vol. II., pp, 595-613. 



20. Cypriiia Islandica (Lister) Lamarck. 

 Black Quahog. 



[Cyprina, from Kupris, a name of Venus; Islandica, Icelandic]. 



DiSTKiBUTiON, («) General; — Shallow water to ninety 

 fathoms. Long Island to Arctic Ocean, and around the 



