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DECORATIVE ART 
Of all the artifacts found here only pottery, a bone awl, a piece of 
bone, and what may have been a bone needle, were decorated. The 
decoration of the pottery has been discussed on pages 119 and 120. 
The bone awl illustrated on Plate XXXI, figure 18, has a V-shaped 
incision at each end on both sides of the flattened part of the awl. The 
angles of the part bounded by these V-shaped incisions are ornamented 
with shallow notches. The deeper notches seen on the irregular fragment 
of bone illustrated on Plate XXXII, figure 17, may have been enumerative 
tallies rather than for ornament. 
A sort of herring-bone ornamentation is seen on a fragment of what 
may have been a needle (Plate XXXI, figure 20). 
GRAVES 
No graves were found during the excavations, nor did the writer hear 
of any skeletons being found in the immediate vicinity of the shell-heap. 
If one can rely on the information given by the finders, a skeleton 
accompanied by a stone celt was ploughed up some years ago a few feet 
from the shell-heap on the Weihnacht farm. 
Some bones thought to be human and boards which may have belonged 
to coffins were washed out of the bank at Indian point in recent years, 
but these must have belonged to quite recent Micmacs, who are known tc 
have made the point their headquarters and had a graveyard there. 1 
CONCLUSION 
The Eisenhauer heap was composed almost entirely of shells of the 
soft-shelled clam, but it also contained ten other varieties of marine shells 
and one species of land snail. Compared with the remains of shell-fish, 
there were few bones of other food animals, which suggests that hunting 
and fishing were merely incidental activities during the seasonal occupation 
of the site. The natural resources, such as stone, bark, wood, and bone, 
were used, and two natural copper nuggets were found. Implements 
used in securing food were confined to stone and bone points for arrows and 
bone points for harpoons, the latter suggesting Eskimo influence. The 
earthenware pots were crude and had rounded bottoms. Artifacts made 
of bone were less numerous than those of stone, but most of them were of 
better finish. Antler was used for “wedges” and little else. Knives made 
of the incisor teeth of the beaver and some of the bone awls and scrapers 
chipped from stone resemble those found in Ontario. The absence of stone 
gouges and grooved stone axes, which, however, occur as surface finds 
nearby and elsewhere in the province, suggests that these artifacts belong 
to some other and possibly earlier people than the Micmacs. The partly 
i Dos Brisay, Mather B.: “History of Lunenburg County’’ (Second edition, Toronto, 1895), pp, 152, 346. 
