288 ABORIGINAL REMAINS.—PIERS. 
pending the object. The notches may have served as a record or 
they may have been only added for ornament. 
Il.—COPPER. 
A collection of eighteen specimens is from Bachmann’s Beach, 
Lunenburg. Presented by L. Anderson & Co., 1874, There are 
eight nuggets, four of which are in their natural state, the rest 
have been «slightly hammered on two sides. Two other pieces 
have been hammered out very thin—too thin even for knives. 
The other objects comprise two “ knives’ and about six piercers. 
The latter are hammered square and brought to a point. One 
specimen is pointed at both ends. 
III—BONE AND HORN. 
An imperfect specimen in the collection would probably be 
classed by many as a piercer. It bears a great resemblance, 
however, to a portion of a large fish-hook from Fraser's River 
(Chearnley Collection.) Similar hooks may be seen figured by 
Swan and Schoolcraft. 
IV.—SHELLS. 
The only objects of shell are two very fine strings of wampum 
beals. They may not be pre-historic. Slight irregularities in 
the beads, however, seem to point to the Indians as their fabri- 
cators. They were presented by Mrs. John Liddell some thirty 
years ago. The first one is a little mure than 11.50 inches in 
length. It consists of eighty-one black and eighty-two white 
beads strung alternately ; one hundred and sixty-three in all. 
These beads are in the form of small perforated discs about .24 
of an inch in diameter. Diameter of perforation .07 of an inch. 
The average thickness of the beads is .07 of an inch. A twisted, 
two-strand cord made of fibre is used for the purpose of holding 
these beads together. 
The other string of wampum is composed of smaller dises. 
The length of the string is 61.7 inches. The diameter of the 
