DESCEIPTIONS OF THE PLATES BONE IMPLEMENTS, ETC. [B. XIII.] 97 



B. PLATE XIII. 



All the specimens here shown came from a Station in the Gorge d'Enfer, on 

 the right bank of the Vezere, and nearly opposite to the village of Les Eyzies. 

 We have introduced this Plate immediately after those illustrating the contents of 

 the Cave of Cro-Magnon on account of the close analogy existing between the 

 fossil fauna and archaeological remains found at the one and the other of these 

 two Stations. 



Fig. 1. An instrument of unusual shape ; of its intended use it is impossible to 

 speak decisively. It is a narrow, curved, blade-like tine of a Reindeer's antler, 

 retaining a rough, unworked but-end, above which, and for more than a third 

 of the whole length, the stem is subcylindrical, and bears four vertical rows of 

 transverse notches or cut lines, unsymmetrical, and irregular in number. 

 Where these end, the stem is somewhat polished and becomes triangular ; but 

 towards the extremity it is flattened, and had a somewhat chisel-like point, 

 before it lost a portion of one edge by a recent fracture, the cause of its 

 appearing pointed in the figure. 



[Specimens of bone closely resembling this one in shape (in the Christy 

 Collection) have been brought from Western Australia, where the Natives 

 wear them in the cartilaginous septum of the nose, which is perforated for the 

 purpose. These bone spikes may serve as head-scratchers (like the pointed 

 sticks worn in the hair by the Shohoes of Abyssinia), and for many other 

 purposes. T. B. J.] 



Pig. 2. The head of a kind of Javelin or Arrow, long, and tapering from butt to 

 point. Its base is transversely slit (as in figs. 3 and 5), to receive the wedge- 

 like end of the shaft; as with other arrow-heads of the lanceolate (not 

 barbed) type. 



Pigs. 3, 4, 5, and 6. Lanceolate moveable heads for Harpoons or Arrows, of dif- 

 ferent sizes ; all made of Reindeer Antler. The base is in all more or less 

 damaged, but retains traces of the slit to receive the shaft, as shown in figs. 3 b 

 and 5 b. 



Fig. 7. A very sharp, pointed Implement, made of very compact bone. Compare 

 figs. 6 and 8 of B. Plate XII. [This is very similar to a specimen, from the 

 Lake-dwelling of Meilen, figured in Keller's ' Lake-dwellings of Switzerland,' 



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