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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 (plate 96, figure 4, 8). 



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

 eral specimens are worked smooth at the base (see plate 97, figure 

 1-3). One has a slot running 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 97, 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 97, figure 10, is notched and 

 perforated lengthwise. 



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

 Nevertheless the Seneca up to within the last ten 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 Erie used deer 

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

 to the Seneca. The Seneca 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 45 is a drawing of one 

 of these '' jaw corn scrapers." 



Fig. 45 Deer jaw scraper 



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. 



