18 PREHISTORIC FISHING. 



With a similar view the troglodytes may have cut grooves in the barbs of 

 their weapons, if, indeed, these incisions were not merely designed for ornamen- 

 tation. 



In describing the harpoon-like objects of reindeer-horn figured on page 17, 

 I follow more or less M. Lartet's remarks. 



Fig. 11. This specimen exhibits only two barbs on one side. The top has 

 been carefully tapered to a point, and the grooves of the barbs are deeply cut, 

 especially that in the second one. The shank is slightly curved, with an evident 

 swelling at the middle, and the knobs near the lower extremity are quite 

 prominent. From La Madelaine.* 



Fig. 12. This fine specimen was found by M. Brun, conservator of the 

 Museum of Montauban, under the rock-shelter of Bruniquel. Its upper point 

 is short, and it has nine grooved barbs on one side. There is only one knob near 

 the lower end.f 



Fig. 13. This is a perfect specimen, having its original tapering end and 

 suddenly sharp point, and three pairs of alternating, single-grooved barbs. 

 From La Madelaine.J 



Fig. 14. This specimen measures nearly nine inches in length, and is one 

 of the largest found by Messrs. Lartet and Christy. Its point is elongate and 

 somewhat sharp, and the stem regularly rounded. The barbs, cut out symmet- 

 rically and marked with single grooves, are three on one side (left) and five on 

 the other (right) ; the first on the right side is placed forward, and has none to 

 correspond with it on the other side. The others are nearly opposite or alternate. 

 The knobs at the lower end are very prominent. From La Madelaine. 



Fig. 15. A distinct type,|| with the point forming a triangle by the meeting 

 of two barbs, which, like the others, are nearly flat, and provided with two 

 parallel grooves on both faces. The barbs project opposite each other. The 

 stem is marked by two longitudinal lines, between which is a somewhat raised 

 fillet dying out at the point. The knobs at the lower end are tolerably prominent. 

 From La Madelaine.^ 



Fig. 17 represents a fragmentary harpoon-shaped object of reindeer-horn 

 from La Madelaine, the lower part of which is not tapering, but terminates in 

 " a butt convex on one face and nearly flat on the other," and exhibits, moreover, 

 above the lowest pair of barbs all that remains of them a longitudinal, deeply- 



*Beliquia) Aquitanicse; reduction of Fig. 2 on B Plate VI. 

 flbid. ; reduction of Fig. 9 on p. 50, II. 

 Jlbid. ; reduction of Fig. 4 on B Plato XIV. 

 Ibid. ; reduction of Fig. 4 on B Plate I. 



|| " Unless," as M. Lartet says, " it was originally longer, and has been recut and sharpened after having been 

 broken." 



fl Reliquiie Aquitanicse; reduction of Fig. 7 on B Plate I. 



