EELIQUI^E AQTJITANKLE. 



B. PLATE XXV. 



Implements of Antler and Bone, probably illustrative of Tally-marks (figs. 1, 3, 

 6, and perhaps others), Owner-marks (? fig. 7), of Gambling-tools (figs. 2 and 5), 

 and other carving. 



Fig. 1. Sketch of the edge of the perforated Implement, fig. 1, B. Double Plate XV. 

 & XVI. (see page 103), showing the thirty-two transverse notches or scorings, 

 which may possibly have been memoranda, or a reckoning of periods of time, 

 of the results of a hunting expedition, of a game of chance or skill, or of other 

 circumstances. Reduced to two thirds of real size. See page 189. 

 From La Madelaine. 



Fig. 2. Bone knife-like Implement, notched and scored, a, Concave face, c, Con- 

 vex face, b, Edge view, d and e, Sections at f and ft. See pages 185, 187. 

 From the Gorge d'Enfer. 



Fig. 3. A triangular, stick-like, and tapering piece of bone, probably a Tally-stick. 

 It is broken at the smaller end, jagged at the other, with opposite notches cut 

 roughly on the three edges near it, to serve for tying on a string, perhaps for 

 suspension. Towards the upper end, the thin edge, and one of the two corners 

 of the thicker edge or back, are nicked with several, small, distinct, regular cuts. 

 Both series are probably imperfect, from fracture ; but one of them shows two 

 groups of four notches, and one of three. The third edge of the fragment is 

 cut into three long, shallow, sloping notches, forming three distant barblets 

 (not shown in the figure). See page 188. 

 From La Madelaine. 



Fig. 4. A carefully cut stick-like piece of Antler, oblong in section, broken at one 

 extremity, and diminishing in thickness gradually to a sharp edge at the other 

 end, which is roughly rounded in outline, by the sides having been cut-in above 

 it. One of the broad faces bears at the thin end six rather broad, parallel, 

 oblique, transverse cuts, the four upper ones somewhat curved or nearly angular 

 (fig. 46). The opposite face has eleven similar transverse cuts nearly parallel, 

 mostly at unequal distances apart ; and in the seven upper intervals are pairs of 

 irregular lozenge-shaped incisions, apparently marks resulting from an attempt 



