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Perforated potsherd disks are not found at any of the later Neutral sites 
in Oxford and Waterloo counties. The writer knows of only two other 
specimens from southwestern Ontario, 1 one from a site on lot 25, con. VII, 
Malahide tp., Elgin co., the other from elsewhere in the same township. 
Such disks are more common at Iroquoian sites in Victoria county. None 
was found at the Roebuck village site, in eastern Ontario. They occur at 
sites in Kentucky. 2 
DICE 
Although many astragali of the deer were found, they are not artificially 
modified, and one can not be sure that any of them were used as dice. 
CUP AND PIN GAME 
Fifteen specimens made from the proximal phalanges of the deer were 
probably cups used in the familiar cup and pin game. Three apparently 
unfinished specimens suggest that cups were in some cases made also from 
the penultimate or middle phalanges. The specimens in Plate XXIII, 
figures 5 and 6, have holes drilled through the distal extremity. The 
broken edge was left in a rough state on all but three of the perforated 
and apparently completed specimens {See figure 5). The cup seen in 
figure 6 has the edge partly smoothed. 
Cup-like units made from the proximal phalanges are common at 
later Neutral sites in Oxford and Waterloo counties. We have them in 
the Museum from Onondaga township, Brant county; from Yarmouth, 
Malahide, and Bayharn townships, Elgin county; from Houghton, Walsing- 
ham, and Woodhouse townships, Norfolk county; and from the Roebuck 
village site, in eastern Ontario. They occur also at sites in Ohio 3 and 
Kentucky. 4 
The Museum has cups made from the middle phalanges, from Malahide, 
Yarmouth, Houghton, and Walsingham townships. 
Culin illustrates an Assiniboine and two Dakota Indian ring and pin 
games with cups made from perforated phalanges, which retain the proximal 
ends. 6 The first, or uppermost cup, of the Dakota specimens is made from 
a middle phalanx. This suggests the possibility that our specimens were 
similarly strung. 
Notched bone awls, like those illustrated in Plate XX, figures 20 and 
22, may have been used as the striking pins in this game; or the pins may 
have been made of wood. 
MANUFACTURE OF CUPS FOR CUP AND PIN GAME 
The method of making these cups from phalanges can be learned 
from fourteen unfinished specimens (eleven of which are proximal phalanges 
and three middle phalanges) and some of the finished cups. The proximal 
J Cat. Nos. VIII-F-5160 and VIIUF-5792, National Museum of Canada. 
! Smith: Op. cit., p. 210, and Plate XLI, figs. 14 and 15, and Plate XLIII, fig. 11. 
‘Mills, W. C.: “Explorations of the Gartner Mound and Village Site”; reprint from the Ohio Archaeological and 
Historical Quarterly, vol. XIII, p. 58; Fig. 61 (Columbus, 1904). 
‘Smith: op. cit., p. 209; Plate XLII, fig, 9, and Plate XLIII, figs. 5, 6, and 7. 
Moulin, Stewart: "Games of the North American Indians”; Twenty-fourth Ann. Rept. of the Bureau of American 
Ethnology, Washington, 1907, Figs. 737, 738, and 739, and descriptions on pp. 555-557. 
