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or rounded (Plate V, figure 3), in one instance with one edge notched 
(Plate Y, figure 1); with both edges notched and the base tanged; short 
and broad with both edges notched (Plate Y, figure 4); or broad and 
tapering to the base with notches on both edges (Plate V, figure 5). Other 
methods of fastening are suggested by the shapes of the bases of the points 
on Plate V, figures 6 and 7. A few specimens are barbed (Plate V, figures 
3-5). All these points, especially those like the one in figure 5, Parker 
thinks, 1 probably belong to an Eskimo-like culture; the writer, however, 
has seen specimens that were found on sites yielding pottery of Algonkian 
type. They are not known to occur on Iroquoian sites. 
Bayonet Slates 
These are long and slender, pointed, highly polished specimens with 
sharp edges, diamond-shaped in cross-section; the base wedge-shape for 
insertion in a handle or spear shaft ( See Plate V, figure 9). They have 
been found in three different localities in Ontario and one in Quebec, but 
none has been found on an Iroquoian site. 
Semilunar Knives 
Slate knives of this type having a curved cutting edge and either a 
dull-edged, straight back (Plate V, figure 10), or a thickened, flange-like 
grip, corresponding to the handles of wood, bone, or ivory seen on some 
Eskimo specimens, have been found on a few Algonkian sites in Ontario. 
The largest specimen of the simple type is 7^- inches long and 2f inches 
deep; one of those with a grip is about 9 inches long. This type of knife 
suggests Eskimo contact. None is found on Iroquoian sites. 
Dishes 
A steatite dish, 9§ inches long, 6f wide, and 3 inches high, with lugs 
or handles at each end, is the only specimen of the kind from Ontario. 2 
This was found in Hastings county, near Trent river, a well-known water 
route from lake Ontario to Georgian bay, and was probably brought here 
by some Algonkian hunting or trading party from south of lake Ontario. 
Roller Pestles 
Cylindrical specimens from about 1 foot to 20 inches or more in length 
and from If to 3 inches in diameter, in most cases nearly uniform in diameter 
throughout, and mostly with the grinding face at one end only, have been 
found on a few Algonkian sites in Ontario and Quebec; they do not occur 
on Iroquoian sites. 
Mullers 
Round or oval cobbles with one or two sides flattened, and in many 
cases pitted on one or both sides, which were used as the upper millstones 
in grinding corn, are common on Iroquoian sites, but the writer has not 
seen any from Algonkian sites. 
l See Parker, Arch. Hist, of N.Y., op. cit,, p. 70. 
t See Smith, Harlan I.: “An Album of Prehistoric Canadian Art”; Victoria Memorial Museum, Bull. No. 37, 
Plate XLV, figure 8 (Ottawa, 1923). 
