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Fig. 4 We cannot propose for this the interpretation offered for the preceding 

 specimen. On the contrary, its shape, though exceptional, is the result of a 

 premeditated plan. Its upper end is cut away on two faces, thin and wedge- 

 like, with rounded corners. The two barhs with which it is armed are set on 

 opposite to each other, not far below the flat tapering point ; they are unequal 

 in size, are marked with the characteristic median groove, and do not stand out 

 with an open angle from the stem. Below the barbs the stem is thick ; but it 

 tapers gently towards the two knobs, which are more prominent than usual. 



It is difficult to determine the exact use of this Harpoon, made with com- 

 paratively a considerable amount of care, and to which it would have been easy 

 to give a sharp point instead of the rounded flat edge, ill adapted, we should 

 think, to pierce the skin of a Reindeer or even to wound a Fish. 



From La Madelaine. 



Fig. 5. This also presents a form different from any other specimen we have as yet 

 seen. The upper part- in advance of the two barbs, cylindrical but tapering to 

 a blunt point, is extraordinarily long. The barbs are opposite, unequal, and 

 broken ; they have the usual median groove. The stem swells out in its lower 

 half, below the barbs, and tapers down to the point for insertion in the shaft 

 without any of the usual knobs or prominences. It is true that on the side 

 opposite to that figured there is, low down on the stem, a flat surface, which 

 may give rise to the supposition that this implement may have been fixed by a 

 ligature to a shaft or handle. 

 From La Madelaine. 



Fig. 6. In this we have only the sharp upper part of a Harpoon, with barbs on one 

 side, almost transverse in direction, and marked with the usual median groove. 

 From La Madelaine. 



Fig. 7. A fragment of a slender long-pointed Harpoon, barbed on one side. The 

 point, the barbs, and the stem are all broken. 

 From La Madelaine. 



Fig. 8. A small specimen cut in the shape of a barbed Harpoon, with a long 

 point, which has been broken. There are four barbs on one side only, distinctly 

 separate, sharp, and very oblique, but without the usual grooves. The lower 

 part tapers to a point without any indication of knobs. 



This diminutive weapon-head may have served as an Arrow-head. We have 



