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point is the most characteristic feature. Presumably the 

 absence is to be accounted for by the fact that the Maine 

 Indians used stone arrow points. 



The stone implements were those usual to the regions of the 

 interior of Maine and Massachusetts, wherever Algonquin 

 tribes are found. Arrow heads, knives of various patterns, 

 celts, scrapers, pestles, and hammer-stones, were all of familiar 

 types, but it is noticeable that the farther to the north collec- 

 tions were made, the greater the relative abundance of the 

 stone tools. Everywhere the rounded beach stones of con- 



Fig. 11. 



Fig. 11. Pot found on White Island and restored, showing form and 

 ornamentation. \^ natural size. 



venient size were used as hammers. Many of them show only 

 a small amount of Wear, and as they were convenient to the 

 hand they were probably used without a handle, for breaking 

 bones, etc. Such are little worn. Others show the much 

 bruised end which indicates that they were extensively used, 

 and always on the same end, and that they were attached to a 

 handle. Lastly there are a number which were carefully 

 formed from flint, having been chipped down to their present 

 form. These again had been long used and carried far. 



Besides the above there were everywhere abundant stones 

 which were cracked and disintegrated by the heat of fires, and 

 were doubtless the fire stones placed about their camp fires, 

 and used in cooking. 



.fragments of pottery were found in all the heaps, though 

 never abundantly ; hence they seemed to represent the 

 remnants of storage and water vessels. In two cases enough 

 of a pot was found so that it could be reconstructed, in part 



