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joint of the bone was removed either by breaking, or burning and breaking. 
The broken edge was then rubbed smooth. Seven of the proximal and 
two of the middle phalanges have the hole at the distal joint commenced. 
The conical holes in some of the finished specimens were apparently made 
with drills like those illustrated in Plate XIX, figures 10 and 14; other 
holes seem to have been gouged out rather than drilled. 
RATTLES 
Two fragments of plastrons and part of a carapace of the painted 
turtle are possibly parts of rattles. One specimen from part of the bridge 
portion of the plastron retains traces of a drilled countersunk hole at one 
of the broken edges. The other fragment has a number of perforations. 
Part of two countersunk holes, about 2 inches apart, can be seen on one 
of the broken edges of this fragment. Another hole w T as drilled near the 
sulcus or depressed line between the gular and humeral plates, or rather, 
that part of the plastron covered by these plates, about |-inch from the 
left margin of the plastron. There is the beginning of another perforation 
near this hole; still another goes through the intersection of the median 
suture and the sulcus dividing the humeral and pectoral plates, about 2 
inches from the margin of the plastron. These holes are the only signs of 
artificial modification on the specimen. 
The only specimen made from the carapace is illustrated in Plate XXIII, 
figure 17. It is fragmentary. The edges of the carapace have been ground 
down to a nearly straight edge, obliterating one of the marginal bones and 
parts of others. The underpart of the rounded end was rubbed down 
until the cancellous tissue of the bone was exposed. 
The specimen, illustrated in Plate XXII, figure 12, and described as 
an ornament, may have been part of a rattle. 
GORGET MADE OF STONE 
The slate gorget, with two holes, illustrated in Plate XXIII, figure 18, 
was found by Daniel Gould, a former owner of the farm. It is about five- 
sixteenth inch thick, and apparently unfinished. The holes are bi-conical. 
The curved mark near the upper hole, apparently, was made accidentally. 
Slate gorgets have been found at later Neutral sites in Blenheim 
township, Oxford county. 1 
GORGET MADE FROM PIECE OF HUMAN SKULL 
A circular gorget, with several perforations, said to have been made 
from a fragment of a human skull, 2 was found here by Mr. Gould, but was 
afterwards lost. 
Gorgets made from bone have been found at a later Neutral site in 
Waterloo county, and at other Iroquoian sites in Ontario, Quebec, and 
New York state. 
iSee p. 83, of the author’s "Indian Village Sites in Oxford and Waterloo,” Archaeological Rept., 1890, being part 
of Appendix to the Report of the Minister of Education, Ontario, Toronto, 1900; and “Archaeology of Blenheim 
Township,” op, cit., p. 64. 
*This gorget may possibly have been made of shell. Warren Haley told the writer that he had found circular 
shell gorgets at one of the nearby sites. 
