Discoveries at a Village of the Stone Age. 
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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 diagonal slit at the 
smaller end, was made of the leg bone of a bird. Not knowing 
the use of this implement, I sent it to Dr. Daniel Wilson, of 
Toronto, for examination. 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 chan- 
nelled bone implements, which appear to have been pieces of 
needles and bodkins, were exhumed in the hut bottoms. The 
harpoons were of the ordinary form, with lanceolate blade, barbed 
on one side. Only fragments of this kind of implements 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 tne ancient 
relics in European caverns, may have been used for playing 
games, small pieces of wood, ivory and bone being carried about 
by the Indians of British Columbia at the present day, and are 
used like playing-cards. 
Of ivory implements the only ones found were made of the 
tooth of the beaver. By cutting the point of the inscisor of this 
animal in various ways, chisels, gouges, and other pointed imple- 
ments were formed. These would be used where the material to 
be operated upon was not too hard, and such implements were 
more easily made than the quartz scrapers or tools. 
