Discoveries at a Village of the Stone Age . 1 9 
suppose that he worked within the hut on account of any special 
secret in the manufacture, but for other reasons that I will endeavor 
to explain further on. By far the best work in this line of art at 
Bocabec was found within hut bottom A, where the chipping of the 
lance and arrow-heads was performed beside the fire-place on 
stones or supports placed near the fire. The flakes resulting from 
the manufacture of these implements were very plentiful in this 
part of the hut bottom. Very few flakes were found outside the 
hut, and these mostly beside stones used for wedging the poles of 
the frame-work that supported the covering of the hut. In the 
kitchen-midden, flakes are quite rare. It would, therefore, appear 
that the arrow and lance-heads were fabricated beside the fire- 
place, and apparently at times with the help of the fire-light, for 
the flakes were more abundant at the sides and back of the fire- 
place than in the front. The lance-heads were flat, and of a long 
oval pattern ; a narrower and thicker point, of which one example 
was found, was probably a javelin-point ; and another that was 
triangular and barbed at the base would be regarded as a spear- 
point. All the weapons of this type that we met with were made of 
petrosilex or a highly quartzose felsite, and most of the arrow- 
heads were fabricated from these materials, but we found a few 
that were made of quartz and jasper. 
The arrow-points were chiefly of three patterns, viz., lozenge 
shaped, lanceolate-leaf-form and triangular, with lateral notches 
for securing the point to the shaft. Many of these arrow-points 
were rudely made, others more highly finished. The workman- 
ship on one of the triangular, notched arrow-points of petrosilex 
rock could not be surpassed. It was finely serrated on the edges 
and had a fine tapering point. Another arrow-point of laurel-leaf 
form made of quartz was also quite symmetrical. 
There was a remarkable scarcity of axes and of the larger 
stone implements at these hut bottoms. Only one well-formed 
axe was found, and this was in the kitchen-midden under hut 
bottom B. A very large ovate lance-head of quartzite accom- 
panied this axe. In this lower kitchen-midden, which is connected 
with the hut bottom No. 1 already referred to, there were many 
flakes of a dark brown petrosilex of coarser grain than the black 
petrosilex from which many of the weapon-points of the higher 
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