DESCRIPTIONS OF THE PLATES BONE IMPLEMENTS, ETC. 47 



Fig. 10. A lateral Incisor of a Reindeer, with its root bored with a very round 

 hole which must have been carefully made with a stone drill having a finely 

 worked point. Such perforated teeth as this we have already noticed (p. 42) 

 as being used by the Esquimaux in a kind of head-dress, of which Capt. Parry 

 has given a figure. 

 From Laugerie Basse. 



Figs. 11, 12, and 13. These three Teeth, pierced through the middle of the natu- 

 rally large and flat root, are the Canines of a Ruminant of the genus Cervua. 

 They much resemble those of the common Red Deer ( Cervus elaphus) ; whilst 

 they notably differ from the Canines of the female Reindeer, the only ones that 

 I have observed in place, not having had the opportunity of ascertaining directly 

 the form of those of the male Reindeer. Whatever they are, these perforated 

 teeth must have been in fashion at the period with which we are concerned ; 

 for they have been found in many districts of France, and sometimes in large 

 numbers at one place ; . and this may lead us to suppose they had been used as 

 necklaces, or for some such decoration. 



The specimen fig. 11 is from La Madelaine; fig. 12 from Laugerie Basse; 

 and fig. 13 from Les Eyzies. 



With regard to the several Teeth above described, we must again mention 

 that some of them were probably used for ornament only, or for dress, and 

 that others may have been preserved as memorials of hunting. Thus among the 

 Kuskuchewak, says Sir John Richardson ('Arctic Searching Expedition,' 2 vols. 

 8vo. London, 1851, vol. i. p. 368), " Every hunter preserves some remembrance 

 of each Reindeer that he kills. He either scratches a mark on his bow, or 

 draws out a tooth of the beast, and adds it to a girdle which he wears as an 

 ornament"*. 



Fig. 14. Inner half of a Boar's Lower Canine, split longitudinally. We have 

 thought right to figure this specimen, though it bears no other indication of 

 Man's work than having been neatly slit along its length. Such plates or flakes 

 of teeth are still used for ornament, particularly by the Arabs, who fasten them 



* This custom obtains also among our modern sportsmen ; for instance, those who have retained the 

 privilege, now very rare in France, of hunting the Stag, do not forget to pluck out the canine teeth of the 

 skin deer ; and they call them " Crocs " or " Diamants." Instead, however, of making a hole in them for 

 stringing, they set them in gold as sleeve-buttons, or as cravat-pins. In sporting circles the ladies wear 

 these Deer-teeth in bracelets ; and we have heard even of a handsome necklace or JtivUre entirely 

 composed of these " Diamonds of Venery." 



