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La Madelaine ; whilst the opposite edge (fig. 7 a) is ornamented with bold, deep-cut 

 notches, both straight and oblique, in an irregular chevron pattern*. 



On the Dart-heads and other implements already figured in this Work we 

 may see several groups of notches, more or less systematically arranged, such 

 as : the five notches, alternately long and short, remaining on the broken speci- 

 men, fig. 8, Double Plate B. VII. & VIII. ; three curved notches, deep and 

 broad, on the upper part of fig. 2, B. Plate IX. ; two sets of a transverse line 

 and a cross t on fig. 6, B.Plate X.; the transverse scorings repeated in fives, 

 with similar spacings, on the pig-heads (?), placed snout to snout, in fig. 7 ; the 

 three oblique lines associated with a chevron in fig. 9 ; and four faint scratches 

 (probably accidental) on fig. 11, B. Plate XII. 



So also the Esquimaux mark of an oblique notch crossed with either one or two 

 her oblique notches is found on t he Dart-heads from La Madelaine. Thus near 

 he point of one specimen, fig. 4, B. Plate XXVI., we see four such crosses, two 

 ymmetrical, and two lower ones crossing less and less centrally. Two such 

 oblique notches crossed by four others, but with deeper and broader cuttings 

 than the foregoing, form the mark (or ornament ?) near the butt-end of a Dart- 

 head from La Madelaine, fig. 6, B. Plate XXVI. ; and a more complex pattern, 

 consisting of a row of six short, broad, oblique notches (like adze-heads), each 

 associated with a short thin line meeting its middle on one side (like handles), 

 is found near the butt of another Dart-head from the same place, fig. 3, 

 B. Plate XXVI. See also fig. 5. 



The Esquimaux bone Arrow-head, fig. 77, with Owner-mark, is especially of 

 interest, as the pattern is essentially similar in style to that on figs. 1, 10, and 11, 

 and remotely to figs. 3 and 5, B. Plate XXVI., namely transverse oblique notches 

 either parallel or at different angles. 



The Whale Harpoon-head represented, in reduced outline, by fig. 78 (p. 196) is 

 very neatly cut out of black Slate, and bears the private mark of its Esquimaux 

 owner. On one face (fig. 780) are two parallel longitudinal incised lines, with 

 interrupted line and dots between, near one edge. The other face (fig. 78 b) has 

 a simple longitudinal line, near the other edge. Such a spear-head would fit the 

 notched sheath mentioned above, at page 190. 



* Bone Implements bearing ornamental patterns, besides marks possibly intended for numeration or for 

 recognition, have been obtained also from M. de Lastie's Cave near Bruniquel (Tarn et Garonne) ; see remark* 

 by A. W. Franks, Esq., F.S.A., ' Journ. Anthrop. Instit.' vol. ii. p. 364. 



t Similar to a mark, from an ancient Danish bow, figured by Engelhardt and in Colonel Fox's Memoir, 

 pi. 3. fig. 27, referred to in the footnote at page 193. 



