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and places. I figure in illustration (Fig. 27) four 

 examples : one modern, from Terra del Fuego ; three 

 ancient, from Nova Scotia, from Denmark, and from 

 Kent's Cave in Devonshire. All of them were pro- 

 bably used for capturing fish. 



One very neat little bone implement found at 

 Hochelaga has on one end a round stamp to make 

 rings on pottery, while the other end is pointed, and 

 may have been used for drawing lines. Others are 

 explained, by the habits of the modern tribes, as needles 

 for weaving snow-shoes, and others are similar to the 

 piercers to this day used by the Northern Indians in 

 making holes for the watep, or cord of spruce or larch 

 roots, used for stitching together the birch-bark of 

 their canoes. Instruments very similar to these are 

 figured by Lartet and Christy from the French caves, 

 and by Dupont from those of Belgium. 



The ancient pre-historic people of France and Bel- 

 gium made, according to Lartet and Dupont, very 

 neat and serviceable sewing-needles of bone, and 

 similar, though coarse, needles were used in Canada. 

 One of them in my collection from Hochelaga is 

 flattened and bent like the collar-needles used by 

 saddlers, and has an eye large enough to receive 

 pack-thread (fig. 26). It may have been used in 

 sewing skin garments with sinews of deer. We can 

 easily imagine the surprise of women accustomed to 

 such rough handiwork when they were first introduced 

 to the French fashions of those days, as seen on 

 the persons of Cartier and his gentleman volunteers. 



