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Gorgets are common at most Algonkian sites, the writer having 
records of six hundred and seventy-five specimens from Ontario, the largest 
number coming from the western part of southern Ontario. Specimens 
with two holes have been found on archaic and late pre-European Neutral 
sites, on a late pre-European Mohawk-Onondaga site, and on a few post- 
European Iroquois sites. Some may have been obtained from Algonkians, 
but the discovery of a few unfinished specimens suggests that others may 
have been made by the Iroquois. They are not found on Iroquois sites in 
New York state. 1 
Boat Stones 
The so-called boat stones (Plate VII, figure 12) are rarely found, there 
being records of only ten specimens from Ontario. One side of these 
objects is somewhat pyramidal and the flat side is deeply hollowed, the 
outline of the top of the hollow being lenticular. The flat side of most of 
them is rectangular, only one that the writer has seen being oval. They 
are from about 2f to 4f inches long, about 1 to 1^ inches wide, and about 
inches from front to back. One has a knob on the ridged side, and 
another is grooved in line with the holes and has a large hole through one 
side. All specimens are pierced with two holes. They are mostly made 
of beautifully veined slates and are all finely finished and as a rule polished. 
Boat stones are found on Algonkian sites in Ontario, but do not occur on 
lroquoian sites. 
Bar Amulets 
Two types of slate bar amulets (so called from their shape, although 
their use as amulets is purely conjectural), one being imperforate and the 
other perforated, are found on Algonkian sites. Specimens of the first 
type (Plate VIII, figure 2) are rare, only ten being known from Ontario; 
they are from 6f to 9f inches long, half-round in cross-section, higher and 
wider in the middle than at the ends (which are either straight or slanting), 
and almost perfectly flat at the base. The perforated specimens (Plate 
VIII, figure 1), which are more common than the others, are mostly long 
and slender, with more or less parallel sides, flat base, in many cases a slight 
hump in the middle of the back, and mostly flaring at the ends. One 
specimen, with one side flattened, is formed of a roughly oval slate pebble; 
another, knobbed and in some respects like a boat stone, has holes drilled 
diagonally through the corners on opposite sides. A few specimens have 
a diagonal hole through one end and another through the top at the other 
end. Bar amulets are not found on lroquoian sites. 
Bird Amulets 
Bird amulets, which in some cases look more like turtles and mammals 
than birds, are found on Algonkian sites, but not on all sites. They are of 
several different types, including, besides those seen on Plate VIII, figures 
3-10, one with a flat, oval base and the holes drilled through from top to 
base; one with an oval projection on top of the head, and one without the 
beak seen on most other specimens. The base is mostly flat and in most 
specimens there are diagonal holes through the lower corners of each end. 
The very squat forms in some cases are so low as to make it impossible to 
i See Parker: Arch. Hiet. N.Y., op. eit., p, 401. 
