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thing how they can make them so long and so strait [sic] with 
a knife, yea with a stone only, where they have no knives. 
They feather them with the feathers of an eagle’s tail, because 
they are firm and carry themselves well in the air: and when 
they want them they will give a beaver’s skin, yea, twain for 
_ one of those tails. For the head, the savages that have traffic 
with Frenchmen do head them with iron heads which are brought 
to them ; but the Armouchiquois,* and others more remote, have 
nothing but bones made like serpents’ tongues, or with [svc] the 
tail of a certain fish called sienau. . . . As for the quivers, that 
is the women’s trade.” Bow-strings, according to the same 
authority, were made of intestines, and snow-shoes or rackets 
were strung with the same material. 
Spear-heads (or Cutting Implements ?).—Two stemmed 
specimens (Figs. 12-13), one perfect, the other without the point, 
are in the Fairbanks collection. The uninjured one is three 
inches long, and the other, without doubt, was the same length. 
Two fragments (Figs. 14-15), one of which (Fig. 14) had been a 
very beautiful.and delicate weapon, may also be placed in the 
present class. A fifth specimen (Fig. 16), 3:50 inches long and 
somewhat thick, formed of an argillaceous stone, roughly flaked, 
may be a spear-head or else a leaf-shaped implement for use as a 
cutting tool or for insertion in the head of a club. 
The McCulloch collection, Dalhousie College, Halifax, contains 
a few stone implements, among which is a stemmed and slightly 
barbed spear-head (Fig. 82), 4 inches in length and 2°25 inches 
in greatest breadth. The same collection also contains a leaf- 
shaped implemement (Fig, 81) of white quartz, 4°75 inches long 
and 2 inches in greatest breadth. 
There remain to be described a couple of implements which 
may best be considered here, although, strictly speaking, they 
are of polished stone. The inconsistency of placing them under 
the general head of flaked implements, is immaterial and may 
be pardoned. 
*The Indians who lived in what is now New Hampshire and Massachusetts. 
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