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Several specimens are worked smooth at the bases [see pi. 33, fig. 

 1-3]. One has a slot runnmg from the edge well toward the top. 



One very interesting specimen is that of a bone fishhook in 

 process. If finished it would have been a small delicate hook. No 

 sign of a barb appears. The specimen resembles some of those 

 figured by Prof. F. W. Putnam in The Way Bone Fish Hooks Were 

 Made in the Little Miami Valley. 



A pendantlike tube is shown in plate 33, figure 9. Both ends 

 show the marks of cutting as do both of the pendants of deer's jaws 

 shown in the next figures. Plate 33, figure 10 is notched and 

 perforated lengthwise. 



It is perhaps not customary to rank deer jaws as implements. 

 Nevertheless the Senecas up to within the last 10 years have used 

 them when they could obtain them, for scraping corn from the green 

 cob. The sharp teeth were raked over the kernels to break and cut 

 the hulls and then the hold on the jaw changed and the milk and 

 meat scraped out with the sharp edge that is nearest the chin. The 

 writer secured one of these jaws in 1903 for the American Museum 

 of Natural History. It is entirely probable that the Eries used deer 

 jaws for the same purpose, as they were Iroquois and closely related 

 to the Senecas. The Senecas have a name for the jaw when used as 

 an implement of this kind, a name for the process, and called the 

 corn so prepared " already chewed." Figure 27 is a drawing of one 

 of these " jaw corn scrapers." 



Fig. 27 Deer jaw scraper 



A serrated rib from an ash pit is probably an implement of some 

 kind. Its notched edges suggest its employment as a potter's tool. 

 Perhaps it was used to roughen the surface of the clay which was 

 afterward smoothed down \^sce text fig. 23]. 



Antler 



Antler objects were fairly numerous, though not of great variety. 

 Those found in refuse pits were well preserved but those from 

 graves were decayed and crumbling. 



