FISHING DUKING THE REINDEER-PEEIOD. 



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nor can we mistake the accurate reproduction of this mammal on a Bear's tooth 

 (fig. 84) from the Duruthy Cave, near Sorde, excavated by MM. Louis Lartet and 

 Chaplain Duparc*. 



Fig. 84. 



Outline of a Seal on a Bear's Tooth from the Duruthy Cave : collected by M. Lartet and Duparc. 



It is possible also that, like the North-American Indians, the Cave-folk of 

 Southern France would migrate in search of Salmon. Mr. Lordf tells us that 

 about three weeks before the arrival of Salmon the Indians of Vancouver and 

 British Columbia begin to collect together from all sides, with their wives, 

 children, dogs, horses, lodges, weapons, and skins, under the guidance of a chief, 

 who directs the fishing, and divides the products amongst the tribe. 



It is an interesting fact that among the numerous Salmon-remains from the 

 Caves, which we have examined, we have not met with an entire skeleton, having 

 seen only portions of the vertebral column, as if only the edible portions were 

 taken home to the Caves. The bones of the head of the Salmon, had they been 

 there, would have been as well preserved as those of the small Cyprinoids which 

 we find in the same deposits. These Cyprinoids, on the contrary, which consti- 

 tuted what we may call the every-day fishing of the Aborigines, are recognized 

 in all parts of their skeleton. They were evidently caught near the abode, and 

 furnished fresh food ; whilst the Salmon went to form a food-reserve. 



The northern people sometimes take Salmon, their principal food, at the rocks 

 and dams of the Salmon-leaps ; sometimes they use harpoons. Some of the bone 

 Harpoons barbed on one or both edges, found in the Caves of Pe"rigord (' Reliq. 

 Aquit.' B. Plates I., VI., XIV., XXII., XXVII., and XXIX.), may well have served 

 in fishing for Salmon and Pike. That the latter was caught by the Aborigines of 

 the Reindeer-Period we know by the remains found in the Caverns of the Ve*zere 



* See also ' Materiaux pour 1'Histoire de rHomme ' &c., 2 e ser. vol. v. p. 143, fig. 38. t L. c. pp. 71 & 72. 



