HOKN AND BONE IMPLEMENTS 303 



and the base is rounded. The shaft is much narrower than the 

 barbs. Fig. 308 is a bone harpoon found by Dr Amidon in Jeffer- 

 son county. It is a rather flat and long piece of bone, worked on 

 the under surface below all the barbs, of which there are four on 

 each edge, small but very sharp. On one edge a barb was com- 

 menced and broken off. To correspond with this none was attempted 

 on the other edge opposite. 



In the Waterbury collection is a large and flat bilateral harpoon 

 which has been broken. Some sharp notches make the barbs. All 

 the harpoons and most of the bone and horn articles in this collec- 

 tion are from Brewerton. Dr Hinsdale found there a horn har- 

 poon, much dilated in the center, and with tw^o barbs on each edge. 

 It was 4rf inches long, with a central width of f- of an inch. His 

 best harpoons were from Brewerton, but he obtained many broken 

 ones from Onondaga lake. The conditions there were not favorable 

 for fine specimens. 



Fig. 320 is a perfect and ridged harpoon, found by Oren Pomeroy 

 in the pit at the St Lawrence site. It is worked also on the flat side, 

 and there are three barbs on each edge. In the Woodworth collec- 

 tion are many of the harpoons of Jefferson county, with barbs on 

 one or both sides. A bilateral one ends in a sharp awl at the base, 

 which is an unusual feature. Some are indented, and are not strictly 

 barbed. Dr Pau's fig. 241 is a harpoon from Ontario county, N. Y., 

 presented to the national museum by Col. E. Jewett, which is 

 about 4J inches long. He describes it as " a dart head with three 

 small barbs on each side, so placed that they alternate. The upper 

 side is rounded ; on the lower one the cavity of the bone reaches 

 from the broken lower end to the lowest barb." It is a character- 

 istic New York harpoon, few of which he had seen, and he adds in 

 his usual cautious way : " I would not venture to say more concern- 

 ing the use of this dart head, than that it was probably employed in 

 the fish hunt." Hau, p. 150 



Dr T. B. Stewart sent the writer a good figure of the only har- 

 poon of which he knew in the Susquehanna valley in Pennsylvania, 

 nor have any been reported from that drainage in New York. It 

 was 4 inches long, with sloping linear incisions, as though unfinished, 

 and was found in 1898. He wrote that it " is in section triangular, 



