AN ERIE INDIAN VILLAGE AND BURIAL SITE 



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shown in plate 34, figure 12, is nicely formed and polished. Per- 

 haps it was a pottery marker. Two polished pieces of bone 



Fig. 26 Bone beads 



smoothed on all sides were found in refuse pits. The one shown by 

 figure 13 is grooved on either side. A bone knife blade, the point 

 of which is broken, is shown in figure 14. Raccoon penis bones 

 were found in several pits. All are smoothed and show signs of 

 use, perhaps as hooks for coarse weaving. Figure 21 is that of a 

 long flat bone implement resembling a shuttle. It is a fine specimen, 

 being nicely smoothed and polished. The notch at one end is 

 smoothly worked and shows no signs of being a broken eye. Figure 

 24 is probably that of a broken bone needle. Needles were rare in 

 the site. Deer phalanges were found in abundance and most of 

 them are worked to some degree [see pi. 34, fig. 5, 6] . Numbers 

 were flattened on one side and some were worked down to cones 

 with a perforation at one end, the end nearest the tip. These cones 

 resemble the cups used in the cup and awl game common among the 

 early Hurons and are probably parts of such apparatus [pi. 34, 

 fig- 4, 8]. 



Beaver teeth seem to have been used for scraping or cutting. 



