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which has come to the writer's attention, and this was found by 

 Dr Amidon at the St Lawrence site in 1899. Both ends are 

 pointed. At one end there are two barbs on one edge, and one on 

 the other. At the other end there are three barbs on one edge, and 

 two on the other. One edge has thus three barbs, and the other 

 five. It is expanded in the middle. Dr Amidon found a larger 

 one, on the same site, Sep. 21, 1901. It is 4-J inches long, and has 

 three barbs on each side at one end, and four barbs on each 

 side at the other. Thus far they have been reported from two 

 places only. 



Fig. 232 has lost both points, and may have been broken quite 

 near these. At one end a barb remains on each edge ; at the other 

 there are two barbs on one edge, and there is one on the other. 

 These are quite sharp. The flat surface is beveled at the edges. 

 This is in the Waterbury collection, and was found at Brewerton.. 

 Fig. 263 was found at Brewerton by Dr Hinsdale, and is a perfect 

 specimen, suggesting the use of the more distant barbs for attach- 

 ment. At one end the bone forms an expanded angular head, with 

 two barbs at some distance from this. The other end may be the 

 true or primary point, with several barbs close to it. The upper 

 side is mostlv the natural surface, but the lower surface has also 

 been smoothed. Fig. 321 is another fine example in the Waterbury 

 collection, of which the lower side is here shown. This has been 

 smoothed down, but shows the structure of the bone. The barbs 

 are less prominent at one end than the other, but equally sharp. 

 The larger barbs seem near the primary point. 



Fig. 233 was found on the island at Brewerton by Mr Waterbury 

 in 1899. It was with a skeleton. The point is obtuse, and the 

 three barbs on each edge are very prominent. The general form is 

 flat and broad, with a ridge on one side. Fig. 231 was found with 

 fig. 234, and is in the Bigelow collection. It is flat, and beveled at 

 the edges. The writer furnished figures of these two and another, 

 to Dr Kau. They are fig. 229, 247 and 248 of Prehistoric fishing -, 

 and were found in a grave on the Seneca river. Fig. 266 was also 

 found in a grave at Jack Beef, on this river. Several were with it, 

 which were utilized in husking corn. One long and broken one had 

 many barbs on one side. 



