DESCRIPTIONS OF THE PLATES BONE IMPLEMENTS, ETC. [B. XVII.] 123 



Figs. 13, 14, 15, and 16. These are well-proportioned Needles, of more finished 

 workmanship, and carefully polished. The bony substance is very compact in 

 fig. 16, in which the eye, having been broken, has been re-made, the old fracture 

 of the end remaining visible. This Needle seems to have been made of a flake 

 of very compact Bird's bone. It is not rare with us to find Needles that have 

 been made of Bird's bone ; and they may be recognized at the first glance, 

 because, instead of being regularly rounded throughout, they remain flattened 

 even in the roundest portion of their stem. We have already illustrated at 

 page 135 (Woodcuts, figs. 53 and 54) two other Needles, in which the piercing 

 of the eye is complete in one, and only begun in the other. 

 These Needles caine in great part from La Madelaine. 



Figs. 17, 18, 19, and 20. Needles, of which the point has been broken, and re- 

 made with more or less care. In figs. 18 and 20 the new point seems to have 

 been made by simple lateral cuts. 

 From La Madelaine ? 



Figs. 21 and 22. These specimens are regarded as analogous to fig. 5, described 

 above, page 122. 



From La Madelaine. 



Fig. 23. The lower extremity of the metacarpal of a Horse. On the figured 

 surface are a certain number of longitudinal notches made by various saw-cuts, so 

 as to remove such spillets as were suitable for the manufacture of Needles. We 

 know that the leg-bones of the Horse are very compact in tissue ; and we have 

 experimentally proved that a Needle made of a fresh bone of a Horse will 

 easily pierce the double thickness of a skin glove. 

 From La Madelaine. 



Fig. 24. The laterally notched point of an implement which some would recognize 

 as a kind of knitting or crochet needle; but is it not more likely to be the point 

 of a small barbed Harpoon-head ? (Compare B. Plate VI. figs. 7, 8, and 9 ; p. 57.) 

 From La Madelaine. 



Fig. 25. Part of another small bluntly notched implement made of Reindeer 

 antler, and similar to fig. 22. The tapering end in the figure bears on one side 

 three shallow irregular notches. Its use is unexplained. 

 From La Madelaine. 



