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PREHISTORIC FISHING. 



the cellular structure of the bone. The object was taken by Mr. Ball from the 

 lowest mammalian layer in a cave on Amaknak Island, Alaska. 



FIGS. 246-248. Harpoon-heads of deer-horn. New York. 



Figs. 246 to 248. These figures were made after drawings sent by the Rev. 

 W. M. Beauchamp. The specimens, all consisting of deer-horn, belong to Mr. 

 Otis M. Bigelow, already mentioned. The original of Fig. 246, broken at the 

 base, was found, with other relics, in a gravel-bed on Charles Bidwell's lot, 

 Elbridge, Onondaga County, New York. The originals of Figs. 247 and 248 

 occurred in the same grave which contained the specimen represented in Fig. 

 229 (on page 145). 



In conclusion, I have to describe the few ancient harpoon-heads of copper 

 known to me. They all belong to the State Historical Society of Wisconsin 

 (at Madison), which is particularly rich in prehistoric objects of copper, the State 

 of Wisconsin, on account of its proximity to the source of the virgin metal, having 

 furnished a large number of relics of this material. 



Fig. 249. A small dart-head, perhaps the head of an arrow for shooting 

 fish. Professor James D. Butler, in his jocose mode of expression, refers to it 

 as follows : " We hope for special aid from Germans, for we have had it. Most 

 of our specimens bear the names of German finders. History will repeat itself. 

 Three great German inventions begin with the letter P., Printing, Powder, and 

 Protestantism. Let us have one more, namely, Prehistorics. But all nationalities 

 will aid us. They have. Our French inhabitants are few, but one of them, M. 

 de Neveu, of Fond du Lac, has just presented a copper quite unlike any other 

 in our cabinet. We call it a spear with a unilateral bai'b. Those like it have 

 been found in France and on the Island of Santa Barbara, and are now used in 

 Tierra del Fuego. Meeting with unequal resistance in water, it will not go 



