56 PREHISTORIC FISHING. 



The original of Fig. 62 is characterized by Dr. Gross as " a large harpoon, nearly 

 eight and three-foui-ths inches long ; it has eleven barbs, is perforated at the 

 base, and has been skillfully made out of a fragment of stag's horn."* The barbs 

 are rather blunt. Fig. 63 represents a very fine specimen, thus described by 

 Dr. Gross in " Materiaux " : "A large harpoon of deer-horn, twenty-two centi- 

 meters in length, provided with six very sharp barbs, and perforated at the base 

 for being fastened to a wooden shaft by means of a peg (cheville)."^ Dr. Gross, 

 consequently, does not regard these harpoon -heads as detachable armatures. 

 If the perforations had served for receiving a line they probably would not have 

 been placed so near the lower end. Fig. 64 shows a shorter harpoon-head of 

 similar character, with only one barb on each side. A deer-horn harpoon-head 

 resembling very much the original of Fig. 64, and nearly of the same length, is 

 preserved in the Peabody Museum. It was found at Saint-Aubin, and belonged 

 to the Clement collection. 



It may be assumed that one of the methods employed by the lake-people 

 for obtaining fish was that of shooting them with arrows barbed points of bone, 

 horn, and stone, well suited to form the armatures of such arrows, having been 

 found on the sites of the ancient lake-villages. 



Fin. 05. Saint-Aubin. Fid. 66. Robonhansen. Fio. 67. Boclio. 



FIGS. 65-67. Arrow-heads of horn and flint. 



An aiTow-head from Saint-Aubin, consisting of stag-horn, and according 

 to the illustration, still connected with a portion of the shaft, is represented by 

 Fig. 65.J It has only one barb, and is certainly of a shape suggestive of fish- 

 shooting. Fig. 66 shows the form of a barbed flint point from Robcnhausen, 

 which might have been used with advantage as the head of an arrow designed 



* Keller: Luke Dwellings; Vol. I, p 450; Vol. II, Plate XLII, Fig. 1. 



| Gross: Dernicrcs Trouvailles duns les Habitations Lacustrcs du Lac do Bienno; Materiaux; Vol. XV, 

 1880; p. 10. Representations of the two harpoon-heads on Plate II, Figs. 1 and 2. 

 t Keller : Lake Dwellings; Vol. II, Plate XLIII, Fig. 12. 



