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CONE-SHAPED ANTLER POINTS FOR ARROWS 
Four more or less fragmentary cone-shaped points made from the 
tips of deer antlers were found. One of them, the small crude point 
illustrated in Plate I, figure 16, is whittled at the tip and has a cone-shaped 
socket hole about one-fourth inch deep. The slender point with the tip 
abruptly pointed, illustrated in figure 17, has a socket hole only about three- 
sixteenths inch deep. Another slender point, with part of the basal end cut 
and broken, is about one-fourth inch shorter than the last-mentioned 
specimen. A polished, pointed fragment of antler found here may be the 
tip of an arrow point. 
The points from this site resemble some of those in the Museum’s 
collections from Yarmouth, Malahide, and Bayham townships, Elgin 
county 1 , in having shallow socket holes. 
None of these antler points has been found at later Neutral sites in 
this county, but one was found at a site on lot 40, concession XII, North 
Dumfries township, Waterloo county. 
MANUFACTURE OF CONE-SHAPED ANTLER POINTS FOR ARROWS 
The manufacture of these points is illustrated by a few specimens, 
consisting of broken and cut pieces of antler and partly finished points. 
A few suitable tines had been separated from the rest of the antler, either 
by breaking, or by burning and breaking (See under manufacturing 
processes). Pieces of tines, from which the pointed tip had been removed 
by grooving and breaking, are illustrated in Plate XXI, figures 8, 11, 
and 12. Two nearly completed points were found. In one, illustrated 
in Plate I, figure 18, the socket hole has been commenced and the base 
concaved, possibly to form barbs; the tip is missing. Longitudinal striae 
along the sides suggest the use of a scraper to reduce it into shape. The 
other unfinished point, which is warped and broken, bears similar striae. 
UNILATERALLY BARBED ANTLER POINT FOR HARPOON 
Only one unilaterally barbed harpoon point was found, and that is 
unfinished. It is illustrated in Plate I, figure 20. The tip is missing, 
and the barb barely projects beyond the edge of the shaft. The under side 
is hollow, possibly through decay of the soft cancellated part of the antler. 
A deep groove has been made from above the axil of the barb to within 
half an inch of the base, about three-eighths inch away from and nearly 
parallel with the barbed edge; it was probably made in order to remove 
this part of the point and render it less clumsy. Marks of rubbing with, or 
on, some gritty stone may still be seen on the side shown in the illustration. 
This is the most westerly known find of this type of harpoon point in 
southwestern Ontario 2 . 
FISH-HOOKS 
No fish-hooks were found. The people here may have used compound 
hooks, made by fastening a pointed piece of bone to a wooden shank at 
iCat. Nos. VIII-F-1283, VIII-F-78I3, VIII-F-7822, and VIII-F-7858, National Museum of Canada. 
*See map on page 34 of the writer’s article on “Bone and Horn Harpoon Heads.” Annual Archaeological Report 
1905, being part of Appendix to the Report of the Minister of Education, Ontario, Toronto, 1906. 
