SOME ABORIGINAL SITES. 451 
Near a post-hole which apparently had been connected with the site, lay a 
grooved axe almost 5 feet below the surface, the deposit being 3 feet 6 inches in 
thickness at this place. Presumably the axe had been connected with the 
making, or the driving down, of the post and was lost or forgotten. 
There were also found a number of pestles of limestone, not connected with 
burials as a rule, some about 1 foot in length and all unsymmetrical and care- 
lessly made. A large number of mullers were present in the debris, in two 
instances three of them lying together. These mullers, nearly all of limestone, 
though one is of gneiss, one of ferruginous claystone, two of quartzite, are most 
of them badly battered and chipped. Some are too small to have served for the 
grinding of maize, except, perhaps, as toys. A number have centrally round 
depressions and had been used also as hammerstones, perhaps for the cracking 
of nuts, though no pitted stones were found in the site. 
As might be expected, awls, pins, and various other objects of bone were 
present in the debris, while some were found with burials. A selection of these 
objects, many of which are in excellent condition, including a fish-hook, is 
shown in Fig. 8. 
With four burials in the Knoll, all of infants or of young children, were five 
tubes of bone, the longest about 6.7 inches, the two shortest, found with the 
same burial, each 4.5 inches long. The diameter common to all is about .8 inch. 
As will be described in our account of the burials, all these tubes are highly 
polished and all have been worked down exteriorly and cleared out within. 
While there was no evidence or history of any digging in recent times in the 
Knoll, aboriginal disturbance through intersection of graves was frequently 
noted in parts of it, and this fact doubtless accounts for the finding, in the 
midden debris, of several sizers and netting needles of antler, always separately. 
Of course, some of these may have been lost during the growth of the site, as 
other objeets were, though the aborigines inhabiting the Knoll seem to have 
parted with very little of value through inadvertence. 
While the makers of “Тһе Indian Knoll" knew the use of copper in the 
manufacture of ornaments, they possessed but little of it, as will be noted in the 
detailed list of objects found with burials; and the use of pottery also seems to 
have been very limited at this place, only a few small fragments, some bearing a 
rude decoration, having been found in the entire site. "These fragments were in 
the midden debris comparatively near the surface, though probably small bits 
were scattered throughout the deposit. 
It is probable that the inhabitants of the Knoll used vessels of wood to a 
considerable extent. Small masses of sandstone, which had to be brought from 
some distance, were scattered in numbers throughout the debris. "These, heated, 
may have been used to cause water to boil. 
No pipe or fragment of a pipe, either of earthenware or of stone, was found 
by us in “The Indian Knoll.” А visitor, however, showed us an object of sand- 
stone which he said he had just picked up on the surface near the Knoll. Into 
