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Disks. No disks were found, although disks made of stone, potsherds, 
and shell, that may have been used in gambling, were commonly found in 
Kentucky. 1 
Religious Objects. Some or all of the pendants made from teeth of 
bear, moose, and seal, considered as personal ornaments (page 78, Plate 
XIX, figures 5-8, 11), may have been charms or amulets. The objects 
made of bone and canine teeth, discussed on page 67, and mentioned 
on page 79 as possibly parts of a necklace (Plate VII, figures 5-8), may 
also have been so used. The piece of botryoidal hematite, rubbed on one 
side as if used for making red paint, may nevertheless have been a fetish 
or merely a curio or keepsake, as in fact may several other of the similar 
objects described on page 76. The two pipes in the Patterson collection, 
one from the prehistoric cemetery and the other from the same island 
(page 82), were probably used in ceremonial and religious ways; but the 
latter pipe may be modern and not connected with this culture. Pipes 
were not found by us in the shell-heaps. No bone tubes such as are known 
from Kentucky 2 were found. The incised design upon the pebble shown 
on Plate XIX, figure 15, and the geometric designs shown in figures 16-20, 
may represent manitou or religious symbols. 
Gorgets. Perforated gorgets made of slate or other material were 
not found. At least six common gorgets made of slate and polished have 
been found in Nova Scotia. Five are in the Provincial Museum. One, 
Cat. No. 86 in the Patterson collection, was found at Greenhill, Pictou 
county. Of those in the Provincial Museum, two have one perforation 
only, at the wider end, like four from New Brunswick in the Museum of 
the Natural History Society of New Brunswick in St. John; two have two 
perforations near the middle; and one, with side edges bulging near the 
middle, has a perforation near one end, and another, through which the 
object is broken, in the opposite end, but near the middle. It may have 
had three or more perforations. 
Banner stones and allied “ceremonial” forms were not found, and are 
completely absent from the Maritime Provinces. 
Plummets, Charm-stones, or “Sinkers” . Plummets were not found 
by the writer, and they have been rarely found anywhere in Nova Scotia, 
although a number have been collected in New Brunswick. One of two 
in the Patterson collection may be from the Merigomish shell-heaps, as 
the collection largely came from there. There are nine in the Provincial 
Museum, seven being in the Des Brisay collection and two in the Fair- 
banks collection. One is figured by Gilpin, and one was owned by the 
late W. C. Silver of Halifax. This makes a total of thirteen known from 
Nova Scotia. 3 All these, according to Piers, are well shaped, and differ in 
form only in details, all having a knob on top but no perforation. Accord- 
ing to an oral statement by him all plummets found in Nova Scotia are 
flattened, in some cases even across the natural cleavage of the stone. 
One plummet from Annapolis, Cat. No. 283 in the Patterson collection, has 
the axis of the knob at the top at an angle of 45 degrees from the planes of 
1 Cf. Smith (a), p. 210. 
J Cf. Smith (a), p. 209. 
* Cf. Piers (a), p. 114, 
