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weapon in its haft or handle. In a former memoir* an attempt was made to 

 explain the probable mode of inserting the supposed Arrow-heads, barbed on two 

 sides, in a socket, and of attaching them to the haft by means of cord tied on above 

 the two knobs always present at the lower end of the stem, just above the pointed 

 lower end, which is tapered for insertion in the haft (see also above, page i o) . These 

 two little projections, or knobs, are present also in one of our modern Esquimaux 

 Arrow-heads (fig, 6); and they are here even more prominent, and fit firmly into two 

 corresponding little hollows made in the inside of the socket, the wall of which is very 

 thin and tightly bound with a ligature of thread made of Reindeer's tendon, giving 

 great strength to the socketing. In the other Esquimaux Arrow-head the point of 

 insertion is simply thicker or swollen a little above the tendon-bound socket. 



In the same page with these two Esquimaux Arrows we have represented two 

 specimens that without doubt are more properly termed Harpoons; and these 

 figures we have been kindly permitted to copy from Sir John Lubbock's highly 

 interesting and instructive ' Prehistoric Times ' f. 



One of these Harpoons (fig. 7), made of bone, is copied from the figure 156, 

 page 436 of ' Prehistoric Times.' It is one of those still in use among the natives 

 of Tierra del Fuego (Fuegians). The stem is bluntly pointed; and is barbed, on 

 one side only, with sixteen close-set oblique barbs, arching backwards, not 

 prominent, and formed by simple oblique grooving. The lower part of the stem, 

 corresponding nearly in extent to the usual tapering butt with knobs in our 

 Dordogne specimens, is marked below the barbs, and on that edge only, with five 

 or six irregular notches and accompanying low angular projections, for which there 

 could scarcely be a use except in aiding to fasten the implement on its haft. 



At page 80 of Sir J. Lubbock's work there is an illustration (fig. 95) of another 

 bone Harpoon, of analogous form. This we reproduce in fig. 8, page 50. It 

 belongs to the prehistoric times of Denmark, has sixteen barbs, on one side only, 

 as in fig. 7 ; and in some details of form it approaches rather more nearly our 

 supposed Harpoons from the ancient Stations in Southern France, which indeed 

 have generally been more carefully worked, as may be very fully verified by 

 reference to the Harpoon from Bruniquel, represented by fig. 9. 



This Harpoon (fig. 9), which M. Brun, Conservator of the Museum of Mon- 

 tauban, has authorized us to have figured, was found by him in the deposit under 

 the Rock Shelter near the Chateau of Bruniquel (Tarn et Garonne), which he has 



* Annales des Sciences Naturelles, 4 e serie, Zoologie, vol. xv. p. 210 



t Prehistoric Times, as illustrated by Ancient Remains and the Manrers and Customs of Modern Savages. 

 8vo. London, 1865. 





