(Relics of the Stone Age in (New (Brunswick, 1 3 
in several instances a bright red slate has been employed, the 
surfaces of which have been ground down and flattened by a 
process of rubbing. 
Perforated Stones. Our collection contains several of 
these articles from Maquapit Lake, the purpose of which can 
only be conjectural. They are simply flat pebbles, of irregular 
form, and which would not attract attention were it not that 
they occur with other undoubted Indian relics, and show 
perforations which close examination shows to have been 
artificially made. They may have been employed as sinkers.. 
II. — IMPLEMENTS OF SHELL AND BONE. 
1. Shell Beads or Wampum. (Plate II. Fig. 1.) The 
only examples of the latter which have come under our notice 
were obtained some fifteen years ago from the Tobique River, 
in Victoria County, where they were found, in connection 
with human bones, apparently those of a child, and wrapped 
in bark, buried beneath several feet of soil. They are all 
circular and slightly concavo-convex, the outer diameter 
being about three-eighths, and that of the central perforation 
about one-eighth of an inch. They would appear to have 
been derived from the common fresh water clams ( Unio and 
Anodonta) and, considering the circumstances under which 
they were found, were probably of true Indian and domestic 
manufacture, rather than imported or imitative products, 
such as were abundantly made for purposes of barter, in more 
thickly settled localities. Together with the accompanying 
bones, a large part of the shells obtained at the locality are 
now in the cabinet of the Smithsonian Institution at Washing- 
ton, D. C. 
2. The only implement of bone in the possession of the 
author was obtained from one of the shell heaps found near 
Oak Bay, in Charlotte County. It is apparently a fragment 
of a tibia, which at one point on the edge or stem shows a 
deep nick or lobe, cut in obliquely, and apparently with the 
object of producing a sort of bodkin by which threads might 
be caught and pulled through loops, as in the making of: 
