Mi iiDocii.] TRAYS. (Ill 



the. next stop would be, to increase, the weight of the head by lashing a 

 large piece of bone to the end of the haft, instead of carving the whole 

 laboriously out of a larger piece of bone. The substitution of the still 

 heavier stone for the bone would obviously suggest itself next. The weak 

 point in this argument, however, is that the advantage of the transition 

 from the first to the next form is not suilieicntly obvious. It seems to me 

 more natural to suppose that the haired stone hammer has been de 

 veloped here, as is believed to have been the case elsewhere, by simply 

 adding a handle to the pebble which had already been used as a hammer 

 without one. These bone implements are then to be considered as make 

 shifts or substitutes for the stone hammer, when stones suitable for 

 making the latter could not be procured. Now, such stones are rare at 

 Point Harrow, and must be brought from a distance or purchased from 

 other natives; hence the occasional use of such makeshifts as these. 

 This view will account for the rarity of these bone hammers, as well as 

 the rudeness of their construction. No.S!tS4.&quot;&amp;gt; [1040] would thus be merely 

 the result of individual fancy and not a link in the chain of development. 



FOR SERVING AND EATING FOOD. 



Cooked food is generally served in large shallow trays more or less 

 neatly carved from driftwood and nearly circular or oblong in shape, 



Fin. 33. Mwit dish. 



The collection contains two specimens of the, circular form and three ob 

 long ones. All but one of these have been long in use and are very 

 greasy. No. 73576 [. J JJJ (Fig. 33) has been selected as the type of the 



