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The gorge (for fish?) was used by three Salish tribes in the Gulf of 

 Georgia (Barnett, 1939, Trait 86). 



Since the gorge is simply a bone pin or splinter, pointed at both 

 ends, archeological examples are difficult to identify. On Kodiak, 

 however, gorges with an off-center groove for the line were numerous, 

 especially in the lower levels (Heizer, 1956, p. 73). Drucker's (1943, 

 p. 56) "bipointed forms" of "small slender bone objects," common 

 in Northwest Coast archeological collections, may be gorges. Double- 

 pointed bone pins of various sizes, and probably of various functions, 

 were found at sites near Angoon (de Laguna, 1960, p. 117, pi. 9, a~g). 

 What may be large bone gorges were common at Locarno Beach II 

 (Borden, 1950, p. 16), and are probably represented at Cattle Point 

 (King, 1950, pp. 44 ff., 56, fig. 13, 12). 



COPPER WIRE HOOKS 



A pair of hooks made of copper wire (fig. 18, j) were found together 

 in the fill of House Pit 1 in Old Town III. The wires are rectangular 

 in section, about 0.2 by 0.3 cm. Both are laminated, with open 

 splits for short distances, showing that the copper had not been 

 sufficiently hammered to fuse the layers. The larger hook has a 

 length of 18.1 cm., and is made of a piece of wire 29.3 cm. long; 

 the smaller specimen is made of a section 13.7 cm. long. One end of 

 each hook is pointed, the other blunt. About the latter is a mnding 

 of two-ply S-t^vist sinew (?) thread, which seizes the end of another 

 thread, laid on at right angles. The latter is unfortunately broken 

 off short on each specimen. The larger hook also has the remains 

 of another lashing about its pointed end. 



These hooks are too slender to have supported much weight. 

 They may have been leaders to which were attached the sinew loops 

 of snares for small game, since the trapped animal would have been 

 unable to chew through the copper. This suggestion is advanced 

 only tentatively, since copper may have been too valuable for such 

 a purpose. Our informants offered no explanation. 



ORNAMENTS 



A variety of ornaments of native manufacture were found at Old 

 Town (fig. 19), and include pendants of various materials, beads, 

 copper bracelets and rings, pins and bodkins (some presumabl}^ for 

 the nose), as well as objects of possible ritual significance, described 

 below. The only objects reported ethnologically but not found in 

 the sites, were labrets and ornaments of dentalia and haliotis shell. 



