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being 2.1 inches in length; exceptionally they are discoidal, and about .7 inch in 
diameter. Examples of jet beads from the Knoll are shown in Plate XII. 
The beads of claystone are tubular, barrel-shaped, globular, and discoidal. 
They vary considerably in size, and occasionally a number were with a single 
burial, nineteen, we believe, bun the maximum. A fine globular bead of clay- 
stone, much ые than others of the same kind, is shown in Plate XII. 
Beads of claystone and of jet were seldom found in the same deposit, though 
once a bead of jet and five much smaller ones of claystone, were with shell beads. 
In one instance a bead of jet, more than one inch in length, was accompanied 
with a shell bead of about the same size, and on a single occasion a tubular shell 
bead more than 1.5 inch long took the place of a jet or of a claystone bead with 
a deposit. 
There were also with burials some shell gorgets, most without decoration, 
a few, however, showing line and punctate work very rudely executed. 
With a number of the deposits of beads, and usually found in pairs, were 
curved strips of shell cut from the bodywhorls of large marine univalves, similar 
to those shown in Plate XII. These ornaments, pierced at one end for suspen- 
sion, in a few instances were found at each side of the head and may have been 
used as ear ornaments, but in other cases they lay near the neck with beads 
and apparently had been strung among them; in fact the impression of a bead 
was in one instance found alongside the сета of опе of these ornaments. 
Also strung among the beads, as was done by the Caribs of British Guiana, 
and elsewhere, were canine teeth of carnivores, perforated for suspension, the 
greatest number found at the Knoll with any one lot of beads being eight. "The 
teeth from the Knoll have been identified by Dr. Gerrit S. Miller, Jr., as belong- 
ing to the wolf, the coyote, and the bobcat (Lyng rufus). Doctor Miller writes: 
"I was struck by the absence of dog's teeth among the ornaments. While I 
have no doubt about the determination of the coyote and lynx, it must always 
be remembered that dog and wolf are separated by size only; hence in dealing 
with a single tooth there is always possibility of an error. In the case of this 
carnassial I think that such possibility is at its minimum." 
Some lanceheads, and a fair number of arrowheads and knives, difficult to 
differentiate owing to the considerable size of all the pointed flints at this place, 
were present with burials. All are of flint, of dark shade as a rule. 
In the midden debris were numerous other lanceheads, arrowheads, and 
drills of flint, and a number of arrowheads of antler, some broken. A selection 
of flints from ‘‘The Indian Knoll" is shown in Fig. 7. 
No celts were found by us in the Knoll, with the sole exception of a diminutive 
one but 2.1 inches in length, though fifteen grooved axes were unearthed, none 
more than 6.5 inches in length, two distinetly with burials, the others, badly 
battered as a rule, scattered in the midden deposit. These axes, most of lime- 
stone though one at least is of sandstone, evidently took the place of celts in 
the aboriginal life on the Knoll. 
