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been either for the suspension of a cleaner, to facilitate attachment to the 
stem, or for the attachment of feathers or other decorative or ceremonial 
material. The other pipe, Cat. No. 176 in the Patterson collection, is 
from Tatamagouche. 
Tobacco was not planted by the Micmacs in Nova Scotia, according 
to Gilpin (page 222). 
Amusements. The astragalus bone of ungulates mentioned on page 80 
as possibly used as a die may have been used as a buzz. The little celt 
or chisel, only about If inches long, made of soft sandstone and found 
in heap D, described on page 49, may have been a toy rather than a tool. 
DECORATIVE ART 
The graphic and plastic art of the prehistoric people of Merigomish 
harbour is illustrated only by fragments of pottery and a few other objects 
(Plate XIX, figures 15-17, 19,20). The art work is confined to red colour 
on five specimens, incised lines on two stones, incised lines, notches, and 
pits on artifacts of bone and antler, an incised line on a canine tooth of a 
bear, dots, pits, and gashes on pottery, notches impressed in the rim of 
pottery, impressions on pottery, and the form of pottery dishes. The 
applied art on pottery is apparently confined to the rim and neck, frag- 
ments apparently from the lower parts of the pots bearing no decoration. 
No art work on shell was found, and no modelling or sculpturing. 
All is probably purely decorative rather than conventional, symbolic, 
or representative, with the possible exception of the incised lines on the 
pebble on Plate XIX, figure 15. 
Geometric patterns include spiral bands of colour, notches, grooves 
with cross grooves, rows of pits, parallel lines made up of square and tri- 
angular impressions, V-shaped incisions, a sharp zigzag line, zigzag lines 
made up of square or triangular impressions, diagonal and horizontal 
bands made up of parallel rows of nearly transverse impressions of twisted 
cord, fan-like or radiating designs made up of curved rows of nearly trans- 
verse impressions of twisted cord, and impressions apparently of woven 
porcupine quills or moose hair. 
Reddish brown colouring in spiral bands, which may have been applied 
for artistic purposes or may be merely a stain from windings, shows on 
two fragments of points made of bone, discussed on page 30, one of them 
the basal end of a barbed harpoon point (Plate VI, figure 9). This stain 
does not penetrate deeply into the bone, and on the latter specimen does 
not extend to the tip fragment, which, although found near the basal 
fragment, had been long broken from it. The coloured spiral may have 
been imposed on the basal fragment in some way after it had been broken, 
or the tip fragment may have been subjected to different conditions that 
caused it to lose the colour. Colouring materials have been discussed on 
page 76. 
Incised lines were found on only two specimens of stone. Those 
on a greenish grey slate pebble (Plate XIX, figure 14) were, probably, 
not made for aesthetic reasons but to cut out material. Those on the 
