24 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 82 



fashioned from natural pebbles, and evidently intended for hard usage. 

 However, two other specimens, quite similar to the type specimen 

 which is illustrated, were found. The three were discovered within 

 a very small area. All are rather massive and approximately the same 

 size. The hafting evidently passed across the middle and rested in 

 the two slight grooves. The fourth specimen shown in this plate is a 

 fragment of a well finished implement which, after having been 

 broken, was used as a hammer. The two ends show the effect of long 

 use, being much battered and worn. In this condition it may or may 

 not have been attached to a handle. 



With very few exceptions all specimens illustrated in the four 

 plates are made of greenstone or a related rock. Some are more 

 weathered than others, but whether this condition should be attributed 

 to greater age of the object or to the material of which it is made has 

 not been determined. 



Small stone objects, in addition to the numerous arrowheads and 

 related forms, are found scattered over the surface of the site of the 

 village. Thus far very few have been recovered, and although they 

 are often fractured, they tend nevertheless to reveal some part of the 

 art of the inhabitants of the ancient settlement. Examples are illus- 

 trated in the upper part of plate 8. Top row: a is a curious object 

 made of soapstone. It appears to be complete and suggests, in form, 

 the claw of a bear. It is believed to have been a fetish rather than an 

 implement of any sort. Next, Z; is a small stone disk, maximum 

 diameter ifV inches, thickness j\ inch. It is made of an igneous 

 rock, and the surface is now brownish and greatly weathered. There 

 appear to have been two small perforations on the edge less than 

 ^ inch apart, but this part of the original surface has been broken 

 away, allowing only a section of the perforations to remain. The third 

 specimen on this row, c, is a fragment of a well made, polished tablet 

 which had probably been perforated. Its greatest thickness is about 

 ■^Q inch ; material, reddish brown slate. 



Below the three pieces just described are four objects which may 

 be termed tools. The use of d and c is not known, but the two chipped 

 specimens, / and g, show evidence of having been used as scrapers. 

 Both are made of chert. 



On the lower part of plate 8 are shown typical examples of 

 projectile points, /?, together with some larger pieces which may have 

 served as knives. All are made of grayish quartzite. There is also an 

 excellent example of a disk or blade, ;', being one of two similar speci- 

 mens discovered on the surface of the slope of the hill rising just 

 east of the site. The greatest thickness of this piece is less than one 

 inch; material, grayish quartzite. 



