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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 [sic] the 

 tail of a certain fish called sicnau. ... 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 (Fiof. 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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