HORN AND BONE IMPLEMENTS 325 



the implement is half its true length. From the tip of the fork to 

 the chisel point is Tf inches, and from the same tip to the extreme 

 point is lOf inches. It is an adz made from a deer's antler. The 

 short prong is sharpened to a chisel edge, is nicely worked the entire 

 length and is now very straight. One prong has been cut off, and 

 another left for a handle. This is less worked, but it is a fine and 

 rare implement. In the same collection and from the same place is 

 an antler prong 1Q^ inches long, cut off at the base, where there 

 are several cuts. 



Fig. 331 is a long and hollow bone found in a cache at Cayuga. 

 It has been cut down by grinding, and thus laid open in the center. 

 The orifice is 4f inches long, and the bone has a length of 11 inches. 

 The joints are left at each end. It was full of red paint when 

 found in 1S86, and a small, elliptic sandstone pestle or mnller, 3 

 inches long, lay along the opening. It is much reduced in the 

 figure. Fig. 332 shows a fine bone mortar from the Garoga fort, 

 which is in the Richmond collection. It is reduced in the figure, 

 being -If inches high, 2 inches wide at the top, and If inches at the 

 bottom. It is excavated nearly to the base. The accompanying 

 bone pestle has been already shown. 



A large number of long bones from Ohio were in the Pan-x\meri- 

 •can exposition, and were called scrapers. They were cut much like 

 tig. 331, but more deeply, and probably had the use assigned. The 

 Cayuga example was a paint box. 



Fig. 342 is one of the rarest of all Kew York articles, being an 

 implement made of a walrus tusk. It is curved, angular, and has 

 been ground to a broad point at one end. The actual dimensions 

 are 16 inches of length, and 1^ inches of thickness, being nearly as 

 wide throughout as at the thickest part. With it were found large 

 bones and other relics, and a gouge of walrus tusk broken in two. 

 Unfortunately this fine article is much weathered. It came from 

 the early fishing place at Brewerton. 



Fig. 349 is a novel implement in the Bigelow collection, and from 

 the Christopher site. It is a well worked bone naturally deeply 

 grooved on each side, but with the edges of the grooves ground 

 flat. A rounding crosscut connects these at each end. The one at 

 the "basal joint is not conspicuous, but the other is very deep, form- 



