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on the harbour. That he has abandoned the manufacture of pottery, 
since he has been able to secure tin pails, better pottery, and glassware, 
is as natural as it is that most of our own people do not make pottery. 
The archaeology also bears certain resemblances to the material 
culture of neighbouring modern Indians. Some of the small sharpened 
pieces of bone are similar to points lashed obliquely at the end of a stick to 
make fish-hooks among the Montagnais. The toe bones perforated at one end 
may be unfinished objects, needing only the other end cut off to make 
them like the ring used with a bone awl for the pin in the ring-and-pin 
game by the Montagnais. The perforated bear canines are like those 
used as toggles among the Montagnais, except that the holes are gouged 
out rather than drilled; but the drilling in the Montagnais specimens 
appears to have been done with white men’s tools, and the use of the 
drill may have been adopted by them recently. 
Eskimo work has been suggested by Patterson (a, pages 236-237) 
because of some of the finds on the harbour, especially the harpoon heads 
with a perforation through the tang for retrieving lines, and the toggle 
points for harpoons. Piers (a, page 110) has intimated that the Eskimo 
probably once lived in Nova Scotia, and that some stone implements 
found in the province may not be of Micmac origin because of the preval- 
ence of many adzes and the rarity of the grooved ax — also rare or absent 
in Huron-Iroquoian sites — which is common enough within the area occu- 
pied by the Algonkian linguistic stock to the southwest and west of Nova 
Scotia. He also states that the Eskimo were driven northward by the 
Micmacs in traditional times. The harpoon head with the hole through 
the tang is found among many tribes besides the Eskimo, even among 
the modern Indians. Fragments of pottery were much more numerous 
on Merigomish harbour than harpoon heads and toggle points for harpoons. 
Pottery is not found among the nearest Eskimo, either in their archaeological 
sites or among the present people; besides, the fragments collected are 
clearly from pottery of Algonkian types. The adze is prevalent, and the 
grooved ax rare in many places in eastern North America which are 
far to the south of any area the Eskimo are even suspected of inhabiting. 
Among many perforated objects, none having drilled holes was found, 
though the Eskimo, past and present, are known to be great drillers, even 
frequently detaching pieces of bone, antler, and ivory by drilling rows 
of holes and breaking along the line of holes. It is possible or even prob- 
able that the Micmacs may have secured some objects and ideas from the 
Eskimo, among them the toggle points for harpoons. It is even possible 
that a few Eskimo may have visited these prehistoric Micmac sites; but 
it is not possible that the sites are Eskimo rather than Micmac. 
Some of the material from Nova Scotia is not strictly localized, and 
there is no large or fairly complete collection from any one place besides 
Merigomish harbour. Thus, satisfactory comparison of Merigomish 
material with that from another place on the coast of the province, or 
with material from a site in the interior, cannot be made, but only with 
certain specimens from such sites, and with many that are not positively 
localized, but are only strongly supposed to be from the province. On 
this harbour the peculiar long, slender, bayonet-shaped points of hexagonal 
