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outlined shapes are carved. Two of these (shown in the figure) are generally 

 taken for figures of Fishes. The tail of the second of these is confused with 

 the much better-defined head of a Horse, of which the ear, the mane, the line 

 of the hack, and even the tail leave little to find fault with ; hut the artist, 

 cramped doubtless by want of space, has been more negligent in reproducing 

 the legs. On the side opposite to that shown on the Plate are three other 

 Fish-like figures, and a fourth is on the concave surface, altogether forming a 

 group of six Fishes. There is nothing represented on the other side of the 

 Horse. The further end of the specimen having been lost by an old fracture, 

 we cannot tell whether it was obtuse or pointed. 

 Found at La Madelaine. 



Fig. 2. At first sight this specimen is always taken for a Poniard. It has 

 indeed been evidently tapered and pointed at one end (either intentionally, 

 or by removal of material to be otherwise used) ; but at the other end, 

 or but, which would have been the handle, the rough parts, left on 

 detaching the two branches near the base, have not been smoothed down 

 This horn was broken from the skull, and has some of the frontal bone still 

 attached. The intention may have been to ornament the but by carving; 

 and even now this rugged end fits the grasp of the hand, like a rough 

 pistol-but. 



Fig. 3. Another antler, larger than the foregoing, and also broken from the 

 forehead of the freshly killed Reindeer. Both the brow-antler, and the second 

 branch higher up (bez-antler), have been shortened, but not cut off at the base. 

 Several lines have been cut along the beam ; and the two middlemost of these 

 border a series of little rhombs, cut in relief, for nearly the whole length. The 

 specimen thins off gradually towards the extremity, which (lost by recent frac- 

 ture) was probably pointed, with a slanting edge. Although the ornament was 

 considerably advanced in this specimen, the workman had not removed the 

 projections of the broken branches and frontal bone from the part which ought 

 to serve for the handle, and which perhaps was intended to receive one or more 

 holes, or to be carved in some other manner*. 

 From Laugerie Basse. 



* In a subsequent Part we intend to figure and describe a recent Beindeer Antler, cut and ornamented 

 nearly in the same manner as this ancient example from Laugerie Basse. The modern specimen, met with 

 a few days since in the late Mr. H. Christy's Collection, formed a part of the Vancouver and British- 

 Columbian Contributions to the International Exhibition of 1862. 





