OLD IMPLEMENTS OF NOETH AMEEICA AND DOEDOGNE. 



37 



IV. 



EEMAEKS ON THE SIMILARITY OF SOME IMPLEMENTS FOUND IN THE CAVES OF DOE- 

 DOGNE TO SOME USED BY THE NOETH- AMEEICAN INDIANS, ON THE "GEEMANI" 

 OF THE EOMAN PEEIOD, AND ON THE EANGE OF THE EEINDEEE. 



THE following valuable Letter from 

 a Correspondent*, who most kindly 

 and readily replied to some inquiries 

 respecting the probable use of the 

 North-American horn tool (see fig. 15) 

 referred to in the footnote at p. 32, 

 the primitive weapons and habits of 

 the Indians, and other associated sub- 

 jects, cannot fail of being of high 

 interest to our Readers, and raises 

 the hope that others also will help us, 

 by careful examination and mutual 

 criticism, to arrive at as full explana- 

 tions of the uses of the prehistoric 

 implements that we have to treat of, 

 and of the character and habits of 

 the old people of Pe"rigord, as circum- 

 stances will permit. 



Since the Implement under con- 

 sideration was noticed, in March 1866, 

 as forming part of a collection sent 

 from Vancouver and British Columbia 

 to the Exhibition of 1862, a manu- 

 script list of Indian articles, dated 

 November 29, 1862, has been found, 



* To another friendly correspondent (Mr. 

 Eobert Brown) we are indebted for another 

 letter full of information, which we shall also 

 publish. 



Fig, 15 a. 



Fig. 15 b. 



Implement of Horn, from Mackenzie Eiver, the great 

 district traversed by the Mackenzie, North-east of 

 British Columbia. (One-third of the natural size.) 



