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with drill points of stone, no objects that would seem to have been 
specially made for the purpose were discovered here. Very few drill 
points, also, are found in Iroquois sites in New York (Parker, 6:107), but 
they are common in early Huron sites in Victoria county and in Neutral 
sites in southwestern Ontario, where the writer found sixteen specimens on 
five sites in Blenheim township, Oxford county, of wdiich as many as eight 
specimens w r ere from a single site. No grooved axes, stone gouges, or native 
copper adzes, characteristic of the Algonkian culture, were found. 
The stone adzes and the tools made of bear and beaver teeth were 
probably used in woodworking; the hammers and whetstones weie no 
doubt employed in the manufacture of stone, bone, and antler objects. 
There is no doubt that some tools and handles for adzes and knives 
were made of wood, but of this, owing to the perishable nature of the 
material, no actual evidence could be discovered. 
ANTLER WEDGES OR CHISELS 
Seven antler tines, with the tips ground to a wedge-shape, may have 
been used either as wedges to split pieces of wood or to loosen the bark of 
trees (Mason, 1), or as chisels. Two specimens have a narrow wedge- 
shaped tip; the tip of another is about | inch wide. The edge of the one 
seen in Plate XIV ; figure 5, has been ground more from one side than the 
other. None of the wedges is perforated. They differ from the wedges 
made of wide, thin, and more or less flat pieces of antler found at what 
may be post-European Neutral sites in Brant county, Ontario {See Boyle, 
5, Figure 74). 
Similar antler wedge-shaped tools have been found at Onondaga sites 
in Jefferson county, New York (Skinner, 4:139) ; and at what are probably 
early Huron sites in York and Victoria counties, Ontario; at Neutral sites 
in southwestern Ontario; and at an Erie site (Parker, 1, Plate 35, figures 2 
and 4) and an early Seneca site in New York (Parker, 4, Figure 11, 4) • 
STONE ADZES 
There are fifteen more or less whole, and seventy-three broken, stone 
adzes; twelve others are in Mr. White’s collection. Eight are merely small 
fragments; twenty-two fragments consist of polls; and twenty-four others 
are fragments of the lower part of the blade, thirteen of them with the 
cutting edge intact. A small part of the upper end of eight specimens is 
missing; two other nearly whole blades have only a small part of the cutting 
edge missing; another, although otherwise unbroken, has the cutting edge 
dulled by battering; and seven others have other parts of the blade missing. 
The back of most of the blades is flat; i.e., the blade is asymmetric as 
viewed from the narrow side. The front of some blades is extremely convex 
from end to end; this side of most of them, also, is more convex from side 
to side than the back. One specimen has the corners of all the long edges 
chamfered (Plate XIV, figure 14) . Most of the more complete specimens 
are broader at the cutting end than at the poll (Plate XIV, figures 11 and 
12). Two specimens have cutting edges at each end, one edge on the one 
seen in Plate XIV, figure 13, being straight and the other curved. The 
cutting edge is straight on nineteen blades and curved on twenty -seven 
