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7 Bone combs, whole or in part 



24 Bone needles 



9 Bone draw shaves 



1 Bone ceremonial object 

 63 Worked deer antlers 



3 Hair pins 



2 Tally bones 



62 Bear's teeth perforated 



44 Bear's teeth not perforated 



29 Elk teeth, perforated 



7 Elk teeth, not perforated 



43 Moose, wolf, dog teeth 



9 Stone pipes, wdiole 



5 Clay pipes, whole, plain, or ornamented 



28 Pipe bowls, stone or clay 



82 Pipe stems, 2 inches long or over 



Significance of the Specimens 



Implements and artifacts from any archeological site may be 

 divided into six classifications according to their cultural significance. 

 These are : 



1 Permanent forms common throughout the continent, or more 

 narrowly to a general geographical area. 



2 The general current types common to the cultural period to 

 which the site belongs. On a single site, the normal forms. 



3 Survivals of forms more commonly found on older sites, or 

 found frequently in sites of another culture. 



4 Forms that show experimentation, or that they are in process 

 of developments ; forms that have not arrived to the status of either i 

 or 2. 



5 New forms foitnd sparingly in the site but more frequently in 

 later sites. 



6 Aberi-ant or unique forms not found elsewhere. 



By classifying the specimens from the Reed Fort site by these 

 standards we may be able to trace something of its history and later 

 influences, culturally speaking. Here we find hammerstones and lap- 

 stones, bone awls, chipped flints and celts falling in class i. In class 2 

 are the heavy celts, the triangular arrow points, bone awls, needles, 

 worked phalanges, bone beads, perforated animal teeth, pottery deco- 

 rated by plats of triangles filled with parallel lines drawn on, potters- 

 pipes with raised edges on the bowls, either scjuare, trumpet flaring or 

 having various efligies modeled on, vase or bowl-shaped stone pipe 

 bowls with large beveled stem holes, efiigy stone pipes with otters or 

 lizards worked out on them, crude and rather large shell beads, bone 



