Loo mis and Young — Shell Heaps of Maine. 



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cases where the hollow bones of birds were used to make awls, 

 the upper end was usually left on for a handle and to 

 strengthen the tool. Beside these awls there were a large 

 number of rough splinters, sharpened to a more or less slender 

 point, but with very little work or finish. These would be 

 adapted to serve only as forks, for taking bits of hot meat from 

 the pot, etc., their rough edges unfitting them for sewing or for 

 long continued use. They were apparently quickly made, 

 carelessly used, and often lost and broken. 



Fig. 8. 



Fig. 8. Awls of the heavier types : A, made from the ulna of a deer ; B, 

 pointed at one end, notched at the other ; 0, very carefully made ; D, from 

 the side toe of a moose, and ornamented ; E, from the side toe of the deer. 

 1/2 natural size. 



Then there were a number of instruments with blunt ends, 

 so that they were not adapted as perforating tools — but care- 

 fully made and skillfully finished ; hence, while we have not 

 been able to assign to them their uses, they were doubtless 

 implements made for specific uses about the camp. 



A few needles, consisting of cut pieces of ribs and from 

 three to eight inches long, perforated in the middle, and 

 rounded at either end, were doubtless used for making nets, as 

 they are similar to netting needles used down to recent times. 

 They are the only direct indications we have of nets, but they 

 probably had nets just as they did when first known to the 

 whites. 



Bone scrapers, or beaming tools, were made from the cannon 

 bone of the deer, the middle being cut partly away, and the 



