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of the curved bone-picks, pointed at each end, which the Esquimaux mount on a 

 short wooden handle by lashing them on at the middle of their concave side, and 

 use for digging roots. (Christy Collection : from Sir E. H. Belcher.) Its thinness 

 and smoothness of surface, however, are against the probability of its having been 

 so used. As for the amount of curvature in this and other implements of bone 

 or antler, so many circumstances may have concurred to affect them, both before 

 and after imbedding, that great caution must be had in drawing conclusions. 



Page 96, line 12. After fastening insert and sewing. 

 line 14. For Tarne read Tarn. 



Page 97, B. Plate XIII. fig. 1. It has been suggested by Dr. Broca, and with 

 some probability, that tnis bears a Game-score, being a Hunter's Tally-stick. See 

 'Les Troglodytes de la Ve"zere,' 1872; and 'Nature,' March 13, 1873, p. 367. 

 See also p. 162 and p. 189. 



Page 97, B. Plate XIII. fig. 7. Possibly an Arrow-point. The groove would 

 fit nicely to an Arrow-stem. Some South- American arrows in the Christy Col- 

 lection are armed with pieces of split cane, having the point continued from the 

 convex side. (T. K. Gay.) 



Page 98, B. Plate XIII. fig. 8. Somewhat similar hollow and cylindrical Bird- 

 bones, cut across obliquely, so as to have a point like that of a quill-pen, have 

 been used in place of needles by the Greenlanders (as shown by specimens from 

 old graves in Greenland), the thread having been passed along the cavity of the 

 bone and doubled back on the outside. These sewing-implements, however, are 

 at least 4^ inches long, and about ^ inch wide, being made of the long slender 

 wing-bones of Wild Fowl. Larger hollow bones, such as the leg-bones of the 

 Goat and other small Ruminants, cut obliquely like the specimen shown by fig. 8, 

 have been found in Sweden, Switzerland, Prance, and England, and are still in 

 use among savages (New Guinea &c.): they are of various sizes, and are well 

 adapted for heads of spears, javelins, and arrows the hollow butt-end being fitted 

 on the shaft either with or without a traversing peg, for which a hole sometimes 

 remains. Mr. John Evans, P.R.S., has one of these bone weapon-heads, from the 

 Cambridge Pens ; it is hollow at the butt-end, with a hole for a pin or rivet. Such 

 a spear-head is figured in pi. 4. fig. 68, of Nilsson's ' Primitive Inhabitants of Scan- 

 dinavia,' Lubbock's Edition, 8vo, 1866. See also Keller's ' Lake-dwellings,' &c., 

 Lee's Translation, pi. 3. fig. 15, and pi. 20. fig. 22 ; these latter, however, retain 

 the knuckle-end of the bone. 



The specimen illustrated by fig. 8 seems well calculated for an Arrow-point. It 

 is like the tips of some New-Guinea arrows in the Christy Collection. The Bush- 



