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incisions or notches on opposite sides have occurred in large number at the 

 lacustrine settlement of Schussenriecl, in the basin of the Feder-See, in Wiirtem- 

 berg.* This station, which belongs to the stone age, was particularly rich in 

 pottery. There are in the United States National Museum some Central- 

 American net-sinkers of the same kind, to which reference will be made in 

 the appendix to this work. 



Fio. 77. Robonhausen. Fio. 78. Wangoa. 



FiG8. 77 and 78. Bark float and wooden implement for arranging nets. 



It was stated on a preceding page that a few of the lacustrine bark floats in 

 the Peabody Museum appear to be of sufficient size to have been used for 

 buoying nets. Fig. 77 (No. 3238) represents one of them, which was found in the 

 Robenhausen lake-settlement. It is of rectangular shape and provided with a 

 rude perforation. The lake-men, for aught we know, may have used for their nets 

 floats of wood a material still frequently employed for the same purpose. Yet 

 in the translation of Keller's work, bark is always mentioned as the material of 

 which they are made. 



A wooden implement from Wangen, represented in Fig. 78,f is described 

 in a satisfactory manner as " a fishing-implement made of the branch of a shrub 

 and its offshoot, and intended for drawing together and arranging the nets when 

 dried. Exactly similar implements are now in use amongst fishermen. "| I am 

 unable to say whether several of these utensils have been preserved ; but the 

 recovery of even a single one appears of interest, in so far as it demonstrates 



* Keller : Lake Dwellings; Vol. I, p. 583. 

 f Ibid. ; Vol. II, Plate XXII, Fig. 6. 

 J Ibid, j Vol. I, p. 71. 



