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recent work. Fig. 151 is a curiously carved article from the 

 Nichols pond fort. It is hollow and flat, being but -J of an inch 

 thick. The two hollows within are not connected. On the reverse 

 and toward the point are three parallel elliptic openings into one 

 cavity. By these it might have been attached to the apparel, or a 

 blade might have been inserted in the broad opening at the other 

 end. The reverse is quite flat. As this fort is identified with 

 Champlain's expedition of 1615, there is a definite age for this 

 carved bone. In some respects it resembles Eskimo bone handles, 

 and probably was made with metallic tools. 



Fig. 155 is from the Otstungo site and in the Frey collection, 

 and may be compared with fig. 151. It has an owl face and elliptic 

 openings on each side, and was probably a handle. Fig. 154 is 

 also in the Frey collection, and is from a figure made by him. His 

 description is brief : " A piece of antler decorated ; cutting evi- 

 dently done with a flint knife. Found at Garoga, August 1889, by 

 S. L. Frey." The edges of the terminal opening are scalloped, and 

 the straight grooves are variously arranged. The elliptic grooves 

 are a novelty at so early a date, and with the tools probably used. 

 It may have been a handle, but the ultimate design may have been 

 a pipe. It is certainly fine. 



Fig. 153 is one of three articles found at Union Springs, and is 

 the smallest of the lot. The points of all are cut off. The longest 

 is 4 inches in length, an inch broad at the top and partly scalloped 

 there. Another is 3f inches long, as wide as the last and with mar- 

 ginal dots. All are of thin horn, cylindric and hollow. This one 

 is abruptly compressed toward the point, and has short marginal 

 cuts at the broad end. The general form of all approaches a cone. 

 In John Murdoch's Ethnological results of the Point Barrow 

 expedition, p. 189 and 301, are some figures resembling these, but 

 with well defined teeth of some length. They were called combs 

 for deerskins. These could not have been used in that way, and 

 more probably may have held charges of powder. 



Fig. 157 is the broken, ornamented head of a pin or awl 

 found on a fort site west of Baldwinsville, and now held bv the 

 writer. The reverse is a little differently carved. Fig. 310 is a 

 broken article, apparently made from a moose antler. The form 



