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missing. It was found on an old camp site at French Lake by 
Miss Norma Fenton during the past summer. It is one and 
one-eighth inches in length and is made of gray mottled agate. 
Drills or Perforators .- — In the Museum are three implements 
with narrow elongated blades and expanded bases. These are 
usually spoken of as ‘‘drills or perforators.” Archaeologists 
are not agreed upon this point. They may be a peculiar type 
of arrow-head. Fig. 44 shows the best specimen in the Museum. 
In New Brunswick we find on camp sites pointed flakes in a 
variety of sizes and shapes. In many of these the point is worn, 
showing evidence of having been used for boring. They are 
not finished implements, simply flakes, which by reason of their 
pointed shape were suitable for drilling or perforating. They 
were used until the point was dulled or broken and then thrown 
aside. 
Knives . — It is probable that most of the larger arrow or 
spear-like blades were used as knives. Le Clercq speaks of 
the Indians wearing knives suspended from the neck. These 
were the dagger-like blades used by the men. About the camp, 
a flake of quartz or felsite served as a temporary knife. Scores 
of these are found on the old village sites. Well finished, broad, 
leaf-shaped or oval blades such as are shown in Figs. 45, 46, are 
found in small numbers. These usually have a finely flaked 
keen cutting edge. They were probably used by the women, 
mounted in the same manner as the Ulu or woman’s knife of 
the Eskimo. 
Fig. 45 is of red jasper, three and one-eighth inches in length. 
Fig. 46.— Brown felsite, three inches long. 
Fig. 47. — There are several curved blades in the collection. 
Possibly these were used as knives. The specimen figured is 
three and one-quarter inches in length. 
Fig. 48/ — A handsome, somewhat longer blade. Judging 
from the specimen it may have been mounted and used as the 
Eskimo Ulu. It is three inches in length. 
Fig. 49.- The collection includes a small number of bent 
blades. The figure shows a side view of one of these. It is 
