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An otolith of a sheepshead was not perforated for stringing, as is one 
from Malahide township, Elgin county, in the Museum. 1 
GAMES, AMUSEMENTS, OBJECTS OF RELIGION, AND SMOKING 
Objects probably used in playing games; fragments of turtle shells, 
possibly used as rattles in religious ceremonials; gorgets made of stone 
and bone; stone and earthenware pipes; a bone tube; and a fragment of 
what may have been a bone whistle, were found. 
TOYS 
Some of the smaller pottery vessels described on page 12, may have 
been toys. The small earthenware pipe, seen in Plate XXIII, figure 9, 
and more fully described on page 38, was evidently a toy, probably made 
by a child. 
DISKS MADE FROM POTSHERDS 
Three crude disks, made from fragments of pottery, may have been 
used as “men” in playing some kind of game. The specimen, illustrated 
in Plate XXIII, figure 1, is more square than round, and has a small 
depression on the concave side, possibly the beginning of a perforation. 
Two of the corners are slightly rubbed. The marks seen on the convex 
side were left by the malleating tool. The specimen, seen in figure 2, is 
also squarish in shape, with one of the edges slightly rubbed. The third 
specimen is roughly chipped to an oval shape, but with no signs of rubbing 
on the edges. 
No disks chipped or nibbed from pottery fragments have been found 
at any of the later Neutral sites in Oxford and Waterloo counties, nor has 
the writer seen any imperforate disks from other Neutral sites in south- 
western Ontario. There are some in The Provincial Museum, Toronto, 
from York and Victoria counties. They were common at the Roebuck 
village site, and at sites which appear to be of the same culture as the 
Roebuck, in eastern Ontario. Similar disks have been found in New 
York 2 and Kentucky. 3 
PERFORATED DISKS MADE OF POTSHERDS 
Two other disks, made from potsherds, are perforated. The specimen 
seen in Plate XXIII, figure 3, is chipped to a roughly circular shape. The 
hole is a little off the centre and seems to have been drilled entirely from 
the concave side, detaching a large scale on the convex side as it came 
through. The other specimen, illustrated in figure 4, is larger and has 
most of the edge rubbed smooth. The bi-conical hole, which was drilled 
through at a slant, shows distinct signs of wear. The convex side retains 
the chequered marking left by the malleating tool. 
*Cat. No. VIII-F-3195. National Museum of Canada. 
2 Beauchamp, W. M.: "Earthenware of the New York Aborigines,” Bull, of the New York State Mus., vol. 5, 
No. 22, p. 81 (Albany, 1898). 
‘Smith, Harlan, I.: “The Prehistoric Ethnology of a Kentucky Site.” Anthropological Papers of the Ana. 
Mus. of Nat. Hist., vol. VI, pt. II, p. 210, and Plate XLIII, figs. 9 and 10 (New York, 1910). 
