result of an old accident ; but the three oblique transverse grooves below, one 

 after the other, have been intentionally made, probably for ornament, and 

 possibly for holding a poisonous material. 

 From La Madelaine. 



Fig. 3. A Dart-head, without its point. It bears an incised ornamental pattern, 

 repeated on the two sides, consisting of a waved line, the alternate concavities 

 of which are occupied by an elongate-ovate (or somewhat fish-like) outline, 

 traversed by from four to seven short and obliquely transverse lines. Whether 

 this figure had any meaning or not it is impossible to decide. 

 From La Madelaine. 



Fig. 4. Another truncated Dart-head, the point having been broken off. Its 

 ornament is varied and carefully executed. On the side shown in our Plate, 

 we see, below the middle of the specimen, something like a fully opened Flower 

 with nine petals. At the lower end, between the converging edges of the bevelled 

 faces, the same Flower is repeated, but with fewer petals, and its margin seems 

 to have been encroached on by the cutting away of these two terminal slopes. 

 On the upper part of the stem, above the first-mentioned Flower, there is an 

 animal form, resembling an outstretched skin of a Carnivore, with a narrow 

 snout and a thick tail, such as that of a Fox, or some allied animal. 



On the other side of this specimen are carved two Horse-heads placed back 

 to back, and below these a fantastical figure, indefinite and resembling 

 nothing among animals or plants. 



From La Madelaine. 



Fig. 5. Another Dart-head that has lost its point. Its bevelled faces are scored with 

 fine transverse lines, of which nine appear in the figure. On the figured side, 

 and continued also on the edges, is the carved outline of a single Horse, without 

 any accompaniment, a rare circumstance among these ornamented implements. 

 [The untinted portions of fig. 5 represent what is carved on the edges of the 

 specimen.] This Horse's head, very long and heavy, is badly designed ; the ears 

 are short and scarcely distinguishable, the mane is more vigorously expressed, 

 and the tail projects horizontally. The outline, though far from being correct, 

 is boldly drawn, and, it would seem, by a firm and practised hand. 

 From La Madelaine. 



Fig. 6. Another pointless Dart-head. This is carved with a bar-like ornament 

 in relief, which at its upper part has four small squarish or subcircular 



