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places, but the defects are not serious. Two quadrupeds — proba- 

 bly wolves — are rampant, and their upturned mouths hold a ser- 

 pent's head. The short, plain space beneath them has a horizontal 

 line of circular perforations, and the teeth are nearly perfect. This 

 very line comb is from Honeoye Falls, and in the Hildburgh collec- 

 tion. The length is 10J inches, and the teeth are If inches long. 

 It is much reduced in the plate. The owner kindly furnished blue 

 prints of his relics. In Mr Hildburgh's collection are three other 

 good examples, all somewhat broken, and all from the same site as 

 the last. One has a man standing behind and probably laying hold 

 of a rampant animal whose head is gone. One has two bears ram- 

 pant, and in this only the teeth of the comb are missing. Another 

 has an animal standing with the head turned back over the shoulder. 

 The teeth and tail of this are broken. 



A few others may be mentioned. The writer found a broken 

 one at the recent site overlooking Wagners hollow in Montgomery 

 county. It had teeth at both ends and two perforations. This was 

 in 1889. On the same spot he found a thin, flat bone, nearly square 

 and well dressed, the front and edges being smooth. It was 2£ by 

 2 inches. Slight cuttings had been made at one end, preparatory to 

 forming a comb. On the same spot were copper saws used in this 

 work. A straight piece of sheet copper was selected, and fine teeth 

 were cut in this with a file, making a serviceable implement. 



In the Richmond collection is an unfinished comb from Rice's 

 woods, which has a central perforation, short teeth at the broad end, 

 and three notches at the narrow. 



In the Dann collection are a number of combs, and among them 

 is an unfinished one of much interest. The teeth have been finished 

 and afterward broken, and the full outline has been formed. There 

 are two excavations and some lines. The unfinished design seems 

 to have been that of two turkeys with raised heads. It is interest- 

 ing as showing that these were actually made in Iroquois villages of 

 the last half of the 17th century. Two of these have quadrupeds 

 rampant, two on each comb. Another has two birds, and still 

 another two bears in the same position. One has a human bust, and 

 all are more or less broken. 



It is curious that, while so many have come from the old villages 



