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D was probably raw material for red paint. A piece of siliceous hematite 
found in heap N is rubbed on all but a broken surface and would produce 
red paint. A piece of botryoidal hematite found in heap M is rubbed 
on one side and might have been used for red paint. A piece of schist 
carrying specularite, found in heap D, may have been raw material for 
glistening dark red paint. A piece of graphitic schist and argillite that 
produces a black powder is broken on two surfaces and rubbed on the 
remaining three (figure 4). The rubbing makes various curved surfaces, 
as might be the case where no attempt was made to shape the object, but 
only to remove material for paint. There is a V-shaped groove ground or 
incised in two of the surfaces and four such grooves crossing each other in 
the third surface. Across one edge is a deep, angular groove, apparently 
caused by grinding to obtain pigment. 
Clothing Materials. Skins of some of the animals mentioned on page 
16 et seq. as represented by bones, antlers, or teeth in the shell-heaps, fur- 
nished material for clothing. This at least does not contradict Lescarbot, 1 
who met Micmacs subsequent to 1606 at Port Royal, and states that they 
wore a cloak of moose or stag, bear, lynx, otter, or beaver. No evidence 
of moose hair or quill work was found, unless the impressions on fragments 
of pottery (Plate IX, figure 6, Plate X, figure 24, Plate XI, figure 13) are 
such, although bones of the moose and porcupine were found. The fact 
that hair and quills are much more perishable than any material found 
by us may account for this. The impressions of cord upon the pottery 
(Plate XI, figures 1—12) , and on casts taken of the impressions, which 
show still more clearfy that the cord was twisted, prove that fibres, probably 
vegetable, were spun (page 75), and it is possible that they were woven 
into dress fabrics, although the skins of animals probably furnished 
the material for most of the clothing. Fragments of charred fabrics 
woven from vegetable fibre were found at the Roebuck site, Ontario, where, 
however, impressions of such fabrics do not appear upon a single fragment 
of pottery. 
Costume. Nothing was found to indicate the style of costume worn, 
there being no figures or drawings, such as are found in some places, to 
indicate either the costume or the way of doing up the hair. According to 
Lescarbot the Micmacs of Nova Scotia wore a skin breech-cloth attached 
to a leather girdle, and a cloak of otter, beaver, moose or stag, bear or lynx, 
tied up with a leather thong, usually leaving one arm out. The cloak * 
was set aside in the wigwam unless the weather was cold. The women 
wore a girdle about the cloak. In the winter the men wore “good brave 
sleeves, tied behind, which kept them very warm.” In winter, going to 
sea, or hunting, the men wore long leggings cut into a great number of 
points on the side of the leg, and tied to the belt. They had no head-dress, 
but both men and women wore the hair loose over their shoulders, the men 
trussing it upon the crown of the head, some four fingers length, with a 
leather lace which they let hang behind. 
i Cf. Piers (a), p. 101. 
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