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4. Several implements of which the use is wneertain, one 
from a mussel bed (so called) in Merigomish Harbor (No. 203), 
and two from the cemetery referred to (No. 209, 210), besides 
pieces of ivory (No. 216.) 
5. An unknown instrument of horn or wory from Merigomish, 
(No. 188.) It is eight inches long, flat in the centre, where it is 
seven-eighths of an inch thick, with rounded edges, and one and 
five-eighths of an inch wide at its greatest breadth, and tapering 
at the one end to a blunt point, and at the other forming a 
rounded edge. It may have been used as an ice chisel. 
6. There are three instruments of walrus ivory, formed by 
sawing the tusk longitudinally from both sides, (Nos. 185—187.) 
They seem to have been used as pressers in forming arrow-heads, 
but it is possible that they may have been used as diggers by 
being attached to a handle, or even as strikers. With them is a 
tusk unmanufactured (No. 195), which I take to be the tooth of 
a spermaceti whale. This animal was formerly found at least as 
an occasional visitant in temperate climates, and its capture by 
the Micmacs is of interest. 
IV.—SHELLS. 
I have found no shell implements in Nova Scotia, but there 
are in the collection some very noticable shell adzes from the 
New Hebrides, (Nos. 180, 183.) 
VULAY. 
For some time it was believed that the Micmacs made no pot- 
tery in pre-historic times. But though no perfect vessel has 
been found, yet considerable quantities of fragments have 
been discovered, sufficient to show the state of the art among 
them. They are fully represented in this collection. The first 
found were in the pre-historic cemetery on Merigomish Island 
(No. 222), but afterward fragments were found in kitchen mid- 
dens (No.. 223), later still larger quantities were found at a spot 
on the Lahave River above Bridgewater, in Lunenburg County, 
where there seems to have been a regular manufactory (Nos. 251, 
