DISCOVERIES AT A VILLAGE OF THE STOHE AGE. 21 
abound with stones washed out of these surface deposits, and 
no special source of supply need be looked for. 
From the fact that many of the rocks and minerals used 
by the community of Bocabec for weapons and implements 
were found so close to their homes, we have good reason to 
suppose that there was very little occasion for these men of 
the Stone Age to seek them elsewhere by barter, 
IMPLEMENTS OF BONE AND IVORY. 
Bone implements of various kinds were found both in the 
hut bottoms and in the kitchen-middens, but mostly in a 
fragmentary condition. The most abundant were bodkins of 
a rough type. These were made in most cases by pointing 
split pieces of the leg bones of moose, deer or other large 
animals. An implement like a bodkin in form, but hollow, 
and having a slit sawed or cut at the smaller end, was made of 
the leg bone of a bird. Not knowing the use of this imple- 
ment, I sent it to Dr. Daniel Wilson, of Toronto, for exami- 
nation, He thinks “it may be assumed with much probability 
that it is a modelling-tool, such as the Western Indians still 
use in the fashioning and ornamenting of their finer pottery.” 
Several fragments of netting needles, or implements which 
for their size and form appear to have been available for this 
use, were found, and one perfect needle of this kind, about 
eight inches long, was met with. It had one eye about the 
middle; another broken needle had two perforations. Many 
fragments of channelled bone implements, which appear to 
have been pieces of needles and bodkins, were exhumed from 
the hut bottoms. The harpoons were of the ordinary form, 
with lanceolate point, and barbed on one side. Only frag- 
ments of this kind of implement were obtained. 
Among the worked bones which are not, strictly speaking, 
implements, there was one which was scored on the back, and 
another that was notched on the edge. Such bones may have 
been of the nature of tally-sticks; but Dr. J. W. Dawson 
suggests that objects of this kind, which are also found among 
the ancient relics in European caverns, may have been- used 
for playing games, small pieces of wood, ivory and bone being 
