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A few perforated or grooved teeth may be mentioned. A bear's 

 tooth with a groove comes from the Atwell fort, and another with 

 a narrow groove from lot 27, Pompey. One perforated at both 

 ends is from Jefferson county, and thence comes another with the 

 base rounded and the tip ground sharp. Another perforated exam- 

 ple is from the neighborhood of Waterburg in Tompkins county. 

 A large one is from Rice's woods. Mr Bigelow has a fine one from 

 the fort of 1696, and a perforated deer's tooth from a fort near 

 Bald win sville. Raymond Dann has many from a site near Hone- 

 oye Falls. A perforated elk's tooth is from Munnsville, and another 

 is in the Yail collection. 



In the Hildburgh cabinet are good examples of all the forms 

 mentioned. One is a good specimen of those of the bear cut off 

 near the center, and is from a recent site a mile north of Lima IS". Y. 

 This would bring them into the historic period, but most seem a 

 little earlier. Three fine and grooved bears teeth are from a recent 

 site at Oneida Valley, and several perforated ones are from West 

 Bloomfield. With these were perforated elks teeth. 



Ornamental forms of bone 



Unless some of the articles called awls were used for decorative 

 purposes, bone and horn were but little employed in adorning the 

 person. A few things have an ornamental character, but they are 

 so few that they will not detain us long, as beads and pendants have 

 already had attention and bone combs will be treated separately. 



Fig. 105 is a fragment found by Dr Hinsdale on the Christopher 

 site. The broader part is ornamented with long rectangles engraved 

 in the bone, and the narrower portion with notches in the edges. 

 It may have been a comb, but more probably was the handle of 

 some implement. Fig. 106 is unique, and seems the upper part of 

 a pin or awl. It ends with the head of a fish bent a little out of 

 the plane of the handle, and below this is a broad band encircling 

 the handle. It was found bv the writer on the fort site before 

 mentioned as west of Baldwinsville. 



Fig. 150 belongs to Col. W. B. Camp of Sacketts Harbor, and was 

 found on a point east of that place. There are four human heads 

 at the top, and there is a deep cut at the base as though for the 

 insertion of some instrument. The general character is that of 



