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The toe bones of the moose with the near ends opened and the far 
ends perforated may have been used for a rattling fringe on the costume. 
Two such objects that had not been opened at the near end were found 
(Plate XIX, figures 12, 13). 
Moccasins. Moccasins w r ere, probably, made from the skins of the 
moose, caribou, and possibly some of the other animals above mentioned. 
That moccasins were made of moose skin is corroborated by Lescarbot. 
Hair Pins. The awls made of bone (Plate XVII, figures 3-10) may 
have been used as hair pins, especially those which bear art work (Plate 
XIX, figures 16, 17). Mills (a, page 48) considers that the larger, double- 
pointed awls made of bone and antler found on the Gartner site in Ohio 
and in graves may have been used as hair pins, since in the burials they 
were invariably found directly below the skulls. 
Personal Ornaments. Personal ornaments other than pendants have 
not been identified as such if found by us, although Lescarbot 1 states 
that the prehistoric Micmacs wore “matachias” hanging at the ears, 
and about their necks, bodies, arms, and legs. These the women made 
of porcupine quills dyed black, white, and red. As such material is very 
perishable, it may account for our not finding anything made of it, but 
bones of the porcupine were found. He further states that “They wore 
esteemed matachias made of shell which were difficult to 
get”; but we found no objects made of shell. 
Beads. Wampum made of shell was not found here by the writer 
or by Patterson (a, page 236), although Piers (a, pages 104 and 117) 
states that a modern Micmac chief is said to have had a wampum belt, 
and there are two strings of shell wampum in the Provincial Museum, 
which, however, he believes were brought to Nova Scotia from New 
England. There are about nine beads made of shell from Nova Scotia 
in the Peabody Museum of Harvard University, ancl beads made of copper 
were found in Lunenburg county, according to Patterson (a, page 235). 
Pendants. Three pendants made from canine teeth of the black 
bear were found, one from a smaller canine tooth, possibly of a wolf, 
one from a canine tooth of a seal, and one from an incisor tooth of a 
moose, but none of stone or shell. All of these are perforated, none 
being grooved. The three pendants made from canine teeth of the bear 
were found in heap A, and all are perforated through the root as if for 
suspension. One (Plate XIX, figure 5), being hollow, is perforated through 
one wall, the other is broken away by a small tapering hole, apparently 
not drilled but gouged from the outside. Another (figure 6), made from 
a tooth of an older bear, is perforated by a hole tapering from each end, 
apparently made by gouging from both sides of the tooth. A third speci- 
men (figure 7) is hollow and broken at the root, but shows on one side a 
portion of a similar perforation, and below it towards one edge a perfor- 
ation, apparently gouged, through one wall to the inner hollow. There 
are four grooves across the enamel, the upper one being deepest and with 
the upper cut nearly at a right angle to the surface. The bottoms of the 
tw r o upper grooves appear to have been burned, especially in the deep 
CPiers (a), p. 102. 
