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PROBLEMATICAL AND MISCELLANEOUS OBJECTS 
Under this head objects of stone, bone, antler, teeth, shell, earthenware, 
and wood, the precise uses of some of which are unknown, will be described. 
Eleven stone implements like that in Plate XIV, figure 19, were found, 
two of them being in Mr. White’s collection. Four of them are more or 
less broken. They are mostly made from oblong pieces of schistose slate 
and hornblende schist; one is made of sandstone. Six specimens have one 
of the longer edges sharpened by grinding; four others, in addition to the 
sharpened, long edge, have a chisel-like edge at one end; and the one 
illustrated has a cutting edge at each end. The long, cutting edge of one 
specimen is incurved, in which respect it resembles similar objects from 
the Uren Village site, in southwestern Ontario (See author, 8, Plate XIX, 
figure 5). The unsharpened ends and the side opposite the long, sharpened 
edge of five specimens are left in a rough state; none of the specimens has 
all the sides smoothed. One is about jf inch thick and rhomboidal in 
cross-section; the others are from about ^ to f inch thick. 
Similar tools have been found at Neutral sites in southwestern Ontario, 
but none has been reported from Iroquoian sites elsewhere in the province 
and in New York. 
A stone object of an unusual shape, seen in Plate I, figure 34, might 
be described as six-sided, the different faces being rhomboidal, trapezoidal, 
and rectangular. It is 2^ inches high and 2f by 2| inches in diameter. 
The sides were worn smooth by constant usage in some grinding operation, 
perhaps as a muller in grinding corn. It may also have been used in 
polishing stone adzes. 
The object in text Figure 3, which was probably found at the site, is 
made of grey slate and is lOf inches long, 1^ inches wide, and ^ inch thick. 
The smaller end seems to have been pointed. Parts of both edges are 
worn smooth as if from use. 
The large, chipped object in Plate XVII, figure 12, shows no signs of 
use, but, as suggested on page 55, it may have been intended for a scraper. 
A fragment of another stone object of uncertain use is seen in Plate 
XVII, figure 17; it may be in process of manufacture. It roughly resembles 
an animal head, although it was probably not intended as such. The side 
illustrated shows a deep groove running parallel with the edges, and there 
is a notch on one side of the broader end and three on the opposite side, at 
the narrowest end. Part of the other side bears two groups of incised lines 
running in opposite directions, part of one group being at the broken edge. 
The use of another object, which seems to be part of one of those 
round, double-convex concretions found so abundantly in the marine clays 
of some parts of the Ottawa valley, is also not apparent. An oval piece 
has been broken from one side and the fractured edge smoothed, so that 
the pebble is now somewhat crescent shaped. 
An oval pebble, about 1^ by 1J inches in diameter, has one of the 
sides flattened by rubbing, but it is hard to say for what purpose it was 
used; perhaps it is in process of manufacture. 
