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Only four fish, bones were found, one being the preoperculum of a 
sculpin, possibly Myoxocephalus groenlandicus. 
No vegetal food was found. 
Rocks and Minerals. Iron pyrites, limonite, two small copper nuggets, 
and worked pieces of chert, chalcedony, jasper, quartz, quartzite, schist, 
and argillaceous, micaceous, schistose, and siliceous slate, besides some 
undetermined kinds of rocks were found. Some of these rocks occur as 
pebbles on the shore of the cove and others in the glacial drift of the neigh- 
bourhood; native copper is said to occur in boulders of trap rock. 
Plant Materials. There were charcoal and pieces of birch bark, 
which owe their preservation to partial charring. 
The charcoal occurred mostly in the black layer below the shells. 
Some pieces of charcoal look as if the wood had been oak. Cord impres- 
sions on pottery suggest that vegetal fibres were used. 
Animal Materials. Evidence was found that bone, antler, and teeth 
were used as material for artifacts. Although there was an abundance 
of shells, not a single artifact was made of this material; in fact, shell 
artifacts are rare in shell-heaps along the northern Atlantic coast. There 
were twenty-five artifacts made of bone, and eleven pieces showing cutting. 
An artifact made of antler, a piece in process of manufacture, another 
piece showing cutting, and several unworked pieces, were found. The 
incisors of the beaver, porcupine, and woodchuck were made into cutting 
tools, and canines of the bear and wolf were perforated for suspension 
as ornaments. 
SECURING OF FOOD 
Implements used in securing food were confined to stone and bone 
points for arrows, and bone points for harpoons, used in hunting and 
fishing. There were also many specimens illustrating the manufacture 
of the stone points. 
Points Chipped from Stone. Twenty-four points chipped from stone 
for arrows and knives were found. Fifteen of these have the tips missing 
and two are tips of broken points. The various kinds, from the crude 
leaf-shaped form to the notched and stemmed point, are illustrated in 
Plate XXIII. Five are made of quartz, five of quartzite, three of jasper, 
six of chert, and five of siliceous slate. Nine are stemless or leaf-shaped 
forms, some of which may have been points for knives. Perhaps they 
are all incipient points purposely left in this state for further specialization. 
One (figure 1), chipped from quartz, may also have been used as a blade 
for a scraper. The points illustrated in figure 2 (symmetrical and crudely 
chipped from chert), figure 3 (asymmetric and chipped from siliceous 
slate), and figure 4 (asymmetric and chipped from jasper), have rounded 
bases. Figure 5 shows an asymmetric point, with a nearly straight base, 
chipped from quartz. The point in figure 6 has the width of the basal 
part slightly reduced by chipping, as if to produce a stem. Thirteen 
points have stems. The crude asymmetric point with the tip missing, 
chipped from quartz (figure 7), is concave on both edges, producing a 
