Haynes.j 30 [Fell. 15, 
its heap ol' (lel)ris. hi one of tlicse I found an ancnent hearth, 
made of beach pebules arranged in order at. tlie foot of a hiri;e 
boidder. Close by was a mass of refuse made up of shells and 
bones, among which were fragments of at least half a dozen 
luunan skulls, broken into pieces of considerable size. The teeth 
showed that they all belonged to youthful persons; and no other 
parts of the human skeleton were found in the vicinity, although 
there was an abundance of the bones of such animals as are com- 
monly found in the shell-heaps of Maine. Evidently the theory 
of an interment will not account for the presence of these skulls, 
while that of cannibalism seems to explain it clearly. 
I wish to exhibit tonight a remarkable relic also found in a 
shell-heap in West Gouldsboro', on the east side of Frenchman's 
Bay. It is an implement made out of the upper half of a human 
humerus. The ball of the Joint forms the handle, while the 
shank has been cut down one half and sharpened to a point. 
There is in the Peabody Museum an implement of a similar 
character, found many years ago by Mr. J. Elliot Cabot, in a 
shell-heap in Ij)SAvich, Mass. It is described by Dr. Jeffries 
Wyman as '-an upper arm bone, which had been worked by 
man, but the worked end having been partially' destroyed, leaves 
it doubtful as to the nature of the implement intended. This 
bone, in its curves and muscular markings corresponds with the 
human humerus, but it is unusually slender, and it is compressed 
at the upper part. A careful comparison, however, justifies the 
conclusion that it was a part of a human skeleton."^ 
In the present instance there is no question about the shape 
and character of the implement, and that it has been fashioned 
out of a human bone. In a popular work upon prehistoric 
times I find a figure, representing a similar tool, that has been 
fashioned out of half of a human radius ; this belonged to Dr. 
Prunieres, and doubtless came from some of his many explora- 
tions in southern France.^ 
Similar ol)jects made out of the bones of animals are quite 
common in the lake-dwellings of Switzerland and elsewhere. '^ 
1 Second annual report Peabody musBuni Amer. archaedlogv and ethnolo£;v, ISG'J, 
p. 16. 
2 Nadaillac's Prehistoric peoples. (Translation) p. Ill, f. 2!). 
^Mortillet's Mus6e pr6historique, pi. 38, f. 311, 312. 
