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decide just what is meant to be represented b\' the effigy. Some who 

 have examined it have thought it intended for a fox. 



Bone 



Articles of bone and antler were particularly numerous and 

 varied. Except for about ten specimens all came from ash pits. 



The great abundance of awls points out their extensive use. The 

 awls were of the usual forms, flat, cylindrical, tubular, handled, and 

 those having a joint end. There were also awls made from small 

 splinters. The principal forms are shown in plate 98. 



Bone beads were found in every ash pit and varied from crudely 

 broken sections of bird and small mammal bones to well-shaped 

 and highly polished cylinders. That so many should have been 

 thrown in among the refuse seems rather remarkable and almost 

 seems to indicate something more than accident. These beads 

 ranged from three thirty-seconds of an inch in diameter to five- 

 eighths of an inch although the majority were about one-quarter of 

 an inch in diameter. One form (see plate 97, figure 5) has the 

 appearance of a handle. 



Perforated elk, wolf and bear teeth were found in refuse pits. 

 Perforated bear tusks were found previously by local collectors of 

 Indian relics. Figure i in plate 96 is that of a bear's molar. It is 

 a beautiful specimen and highly polished. There were several per- 

 forated elk teeth but none with unbroken perforations. Each had 

 been broken. A perforated turtle shell fragment is shown in figure 

 II, plate 96, and came from an ash pit. Other broken perforated 

 carapaces w^ere found in graves. The small spatulate implement 

 shown in plate 96, figure 12, is nicely formed and polished. Per- 

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

 on all sides w^ere found in refuse pits. The one shown by figure 13 

 is grooved on either side. A bone knife blade, the po"nt 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 plate 96, figure 5, 6). Number were flattened on 

 one side and some were worked down to cones with a perforation at 



