OF NEW ENGLAND. 583 
portion is not seen in the figure, as the piece is represented as seen 
some dull tool. Attached to a handle it might be used to dig with, or 
might serve for the purpose of a head-breaker, or ‘casse-téte,” 
described pe Father Rasles.* From Frenchman’s Bay. 
Fig. 2. A flat-pointed instrument, = — long, and 14 wide. 
This is made of the dense exterior portion of an antler, and at the 
lower end has a thin sharp ie as in Tig. $ a. From Crouch’s Cove. 
Fig. 3. A piece of one of the branches of the antler of a deer, from 
which the tip has a“ cut off. The sides near the pointed end have 
been worked down s to present p faces, two of the angles 
uniting them being ipri acute. The detached piece having a deep 
adapted to serve as the point of an arrow. Such points were used by 
the aborigines, and we are informed by Winslow, that when the Pil- 
grims were making their first explorations on the shore at Cape Cod, 
previously to landing at Plymouth, some of the arrows shot at them 
had the kind of point just described.t From Cotuit Port 
F i ; 
Fig. 5. An artificially pointed jie esa of bone, suitable pie the 
ea of an awl. From Crouch’s Cov 
A fragment of a bone of a bird, obliquely truncated and 
S sharpened. From Crouch’s Cov 
Fig. 7. One of the lower incisors of a Sna ground to a thin, 
sharp edge, which last is formed by the enamel on the inner, or flat 
Side of the tooth. From Crouch’s Cove 
Fig. 8. A well wrought and polished spindle-shaped instrument, 
the ‘wee end of which is flattened, and has a sharp edge; the upper 
portion is rounded aes the end broken off, gr ea to have been 
worked to a sharp po From Frenchman’s 
Fig. 9. A slender prts of bone, BEE eens and pointed. 
From Frenchman’s Ba 
Figs. 10 and 12, from Finda Bay, and 11 and 13, from Crouch’s 
Cove, are all made of flattened pieces, each being cut from the walls 
of one of the long bones, and showing the cancellated structure on 
one of the sides 
Fig. i. From Eagle Hill; the serrated edge is quite sharp, but 
from this the bone rapidly increases to one-third of an inch in thick- 
hess, so as to render it wholly unsuitable to be used as a saw. 
Lettres Edifiantes et Curieuse. Paris, 1838. Vol. I. gg 
+ peamiste m gaigre Ei Boston, 1841. p. 158. 
