1036 The American Naturalist. [November, 
exceedingly light, tapering, reedy wood, each about 94 inches long by 
1 inch in diameter at their thickest end. They were fastened together 
at one end—the thickest—at intervals of an inch, by a strong cord 
about 7s of an inch in diameter. Each pin had a hole bored in it and 
a groove cut round the head to receive the cord, which, passing through 
the hole, was knotted after one turn and a half round the groove. 
There are also two small plaques of thin wood about + of an inch thick, 
quadrilateral in shape, the sides measuring severally 3% inches, 23 
inches, 3 inches and 2% inches, the short equal sides making with the 
longest equal interior angles. Of one of these plaques only half was 
found, but they are evidently the same in design. The complete one 
contained five holes about } inch in diameter; the three holes in the 
incomplete one corresponded in position with the three in the same 
part of the complete. The holes contain remains of cord which evi- 
dently had run freely through them. (See Plate XXXVI). 
Two round wooden billets, about 17 x3 inches, and one irregular 
block, about 5 or 6 inches across in its thickest portion, completed the 
appurtenances which seemingly form some kind of trapping arrange- 
ment to the net. Everything was found resting on the shell bottom of 
the “ basin,” and all nearly together. It seems to point to some sudden 
desertion of the spot, whether from fear or for some hurried foraging 
expedition or other reason. From whatever cause the place was left, 
the party did not return, though certainly intending to do so, as wit- 
ness the beauty of the cup conches found by Mr. Wilkins, and the 
value of the nets and wooden articles, the condition of which, when 
found, points to their having been left there in excellent order. 
The net was certainly placed where it lay by man, for the five loose 
sticks which served some unknown purpose were on the top of the 
bunch of the thirty or so smaller pins, and lying as if placed there by 
one hand hold. These smaller pins were piled in uncertain rows as to 
number and position, all seemingly tied together and at one end only. 
The idea that the whole position gave, was the arrival home of a fish- 
ing canoe, the net with its appurtenances being taken out, the heavier 
round billets (purpose unknown) first laid on the beach with the block 
between or next them, the trapping arrangementsiof thirty pins placed 
on the billets with the five sticks loose over the whole. The two small 
plaques, probably part of the trapping arrangement also, were a short 
distance above the main heap. 
The net was placed joining the trapping-pins, but lower down the 
beach, and the rope lower still, near them being the necklace of fish 
fin-bones in a cup. Unfortunately, one of my assistants working in 
