EMPLOYMENT OF SEWING-NEEDLES. 



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have been preceded by the use of bone needles. When, in 1863, at the end of 

 his expedition to the Dead Sea, the late Due de Luynes visited (at Beth-Saour) 

 the collection of worked flints and other very ancient objects collected by M. le 

 Cure Moretain in the neighbourhood of Bethlehem, he noticed a bone sewing- 

 needle, having a pierced eye, but broken at the point. M. Louis Lartet, who 

 accompanied the Duke, asked permission to draw it ; and hence I am enabled to 

 satisfy myself that this needle is exactly similar to those found in our Stations 

 of the Reindeer Period in Perigord. 



Fig. 55. 



A small Awl or Needle-piercer, from Mentone, North Italy. 



Fig. 56. 



A small Awl or Needle-piercer, from Les Eyzies, Dordogne. 



