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Fig. 4. Another Antler, belonging to a young Reindeer, or rather to a female, 

 judging by its small proportions. There is a round hole through it at the broad 

 part where the brow-antler was set on. The stem is marked both by several 

 longitudinal furrows and by numerous irregular cross cuts. If this was meant for 

 ornament, it must be regarded as very coarse work. At its base this antler is still 

 attached to the broken frontal bone. It is truncate at the further extremity. 

 From La Madelaine. 



Fig. 5. A much carved and flattened piece of Reindeer Horn, broken at both 

 ends, but bearing three entire holes and part of a fourth. The holes have a 

 raised border given to them by a groove running more or less parallel to the 

 circumference, above and below, but not between the holes. 



We cannot possibly guess the original form and use of this specimen, any 

 more than those of the following, except from its analogy to the other perforated 

 Deer-horns, above described. 



From La Madelaine. 



Figs. 6a, 6b. Another fragment, analogous to fig. 5, bearing three holes at least. 

 On one of its surfaces (fig. 66) is carved a series of figures comparable with a 

 vertebral column, or the fleshless back-bone of an animal, five and a half of 

 such joint-like or hourglass-like shapes being visible. 

 From La Madelaine. 



[We have lately been informed, by Dr. A. A. Blandy, that, although the Indians 

 of the Amazon, South America, do not at the present time either carve or use such 

 implements as the worked Antlers illustrated by B, Plates III. & IV., yet they 

 carry similar things for ornament. The holes are both for ornament and sus- 

 pension, as these carved horns are hung at the waist of Chiefs, and seem to be 

 implements or weapons used very many years ago, and now carefully preserved, 

 the ordinary weapons now used by the Indians being the spear and bow, and even 

 the rifle and common shot-gun. June 30, 1866.] 



