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the shells are highly prized, this method of estimation is not observed. They plait them together iu broad 

 bandelets, and wear them as ornaments for the head or neck. The demand for these shells extends over a 

 very large tract of country ; for some years ago I noticed that my brother, the late Chief-Factor James 

 Anderson, of the Hudson's-Bay Company, when in charge of Mackenzie's River, wrote to the Columbia for 

 a supply for the purposes of that remote district, the natives not being able to procure a sufficiency for their 

 wants by intermediate barter. They are procured chiefly, if not entirely, from the strait between Vancouver 

 Island and the mainland, the natives fishing for them in deep water with baits to which the inmates of the 

 shells adhere. The fact of their dispersion over so wide a tract of the interior, from the frontiers of Cali- 

 fornia to the banks of the Mackenzie, serves to show how a rude and desultory traffic among barbarous 

 races will account for certain articles, such as the Shells in question, being found in use in localities very 

 remote from that in which they are naturally produced. The common varieties of Shells, such as those 

 composing the necklace found in Cro-Magnon, I have never noticed in use : but I can readily conceive that 

 by the ancient Cave-dwellers, living remote from the sea-shore, they were valued as rarities, and were pro- 

 cured, it may be presumed, by barter with adjacent tribes frequenting the coast much as the Hai-a-quas 

 now by the interior tribes of these regions." 



(3) Pieces of Dentalium, belonging to a Necklace, were exhibited by M. de 

 Vibraye from Tayac (Laugerie Basse) at the International Exhibition, Paris, 1867. 



Page 94. Haematite in the Burials at Cro-Magnon and Paviland. So also 

 there was red ochre with the " Man of Mentone." This association of red paint 

 and the corpse is vividly suggested in Schiller's " Nadowessier's Deathsong " : 



" Colours too, to paint his body, 

 place within his hand, 

 that in the land of souls 

 ruddy he may shine." 



See also Lyell's 'Antiquity of Man,' 4th edit. p. 131. 



Page 95, B. Plate XII. fig. 2 ; and page 97, B. Plate XIII. figs. 2-6. Such 

 lanceolate Arrow-heads, with split base, are mentioned by Dupont (' L'Homme ' 

 &c., 2 edit., 1872, p. 77) as occurring in the Cavern of Sureau, Montaigle, and as 

 belonging to the Mammoth-period. 



The notch or slit in the base of this and similar weapon-heads does not seem 

 calculated to retain them on the stem, but to allow them to be left in the wounded 

 animal, whilst the shaft could be regained and fitted with another head. Some 

 savages (New Guinea &c.) in the present day prepare their arrows so that the 

 heads may leave the stem, or break off easily at incised rings or notches ; for the 

 stems take much time and labour in preparation, and are too valuable to be lost 

 should the prey or enemy bear them off when wounded. (T. K. Gay.) 



Page 95, line 16. For Monteombroux read Montcombroux. 

 line 17. For Chatelperrou read Chatelperron. 



Page 96, B.Plate XII. fig. 11. This curved and pointed fragment reminds one 



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