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BONE IMPLEMENTS 



A large collection of beautiful bone implements (see fig. 31) — 

 needles, awls, tubes, and dirks — rewarded the work at Spruce-tree 



F'iG. 31. Bone implemeuts. 



House. Some of these show the effects of fire throughout their 

 length, while others are smoked only at one end. When unearthed, 



Fig. 32. Dirk and cedar-bark .sheath. 



one of these dirks was still in the original sheath of cedar bark 

 (fig. 32). 



