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Pendants 
A few bone pendants have been found on Neutral sites of the archaic 
and late pre-European periods. One is made from a portion of the carapace 
of a painted turtle; 1 another from part of the plastron of the same species. 2 
A few specimens made by perforating the ball joints of deer femora are 
found on Neutral sites of the late pre-European period. 3 
Beads 
Beads made of bone are found on Neutral sites of all periods; and on 
Huron, Tionontati, Onondaga, and later Iroquois sites. A few discoidal 
specimens have been found on late pre-European Neutral sites, but most 
of them, from all sites, are made of hollow bird and mammal bones, and 
are of various lengths and degrees of finish (Plate XV, figures 18 and 19); 
a few bear incised decoration, 4 and others are carved. 6 A square type, 
derived from the distal joint of the proximal phalanx of the deer, is com- 
mon on late pre-European Neutral sites. A few of the pearly “jewel” 
bones from the head of the sheepshead, a fish common in Ontario waters, 
were perforated for use as beads (Plate XV, figure 20) ; and in a few cases 
perforated vertebrae of other large species of fish were used for the same 
purpose (Plate XV, figure 17). 
Armlets 
A few thin bone and antler objects from about \ to 2f inches wide, 
bent into a circle, and with holes through the converging ends, have been 
found on Iroquoian sites of at least three different periods in Ontario. 
What appears to be part of such an object was found on a Neutral site 
of the archaic period; 6 a specimen decorated with small, round depressions 
comes from a Neutral site of the late pre-European period, and a second, 
much broader, and decorated with incised designs, from another site of 
the same period; one from another Neutral site is seen on Plate XVI, 
figure 10; a plain fragment comes from a site, possibly Huron, near Toronto; 
a narrow specimen decorated with a meander design was found on another 
Huron site of the late pre-European period; and another, with decoration 
of the same kind, comes from a Mohawk-Onondaga site (Plate XVI, figure 
11). Only one specimen comes from a late or post-European Iroquois site. 
Gorgets 
Perforated circular gorgets made from pieces of human skull, usually 
the parietals (Plate XV, figure 21), have been found on several Neutral, 
Huron, and Mohawk-Onondaga sites of the pre-European period, as many 
as ten from one site. They mostly have seven perforations; only a few 
are decorated. 
i See Boyle: 1904 Report, op. cit., fig. 69. 
*See the author’s “Uren Prehistoric V illage Site, Oxford County, Ontario”; National Museum, Canada, Bull. 
51, PI. XXII, fig. 12. 
*&ee Boyle: Archaeological Report, 1894-5, figs. 65 and 69. 
*See Boyle: 1902 Report, op. cit,, fig. 7. 
<>See Boyle: 1904 Report, fig. 43. 
6 See Wintemberg, W. 1.: Nat. Mua., Canada, Bull. 51, PI. XXII, fig. 10. 
