Upon the site previously referred to, fragments of pottery simi

lar to Figs. 3 to 7 are found. It is unglazed and very hard, and seems to be made of clay and pounded shell or stone. The jars were of all sizes, round on the bottom, but made with a rim so that they could be suspended with a cord or strip of bark. The decoration consists of an exceedingly diverse arrangement of incised lines and dots, and it would appear from the

potters who manufactured all that were used by the village, and they seem to have had considerable skill in the plastic art, for not only is the pottery very creditable, but they also worked clay into other forms, showing great ingenuity in makings pipes, the bowls of which are frequently in the form of a bird or mammal, and these always being very true to nature. Some of these are shown in the engravings which fail, however, to give the spirit of the

originals. Fig. 9 is the fragment of a pipe and Fig. 10 and 11 are

samples of birds and animals, rude in style to be sure, but by no means inferior to similar terra-cottas from Mycena and Cyprus. Among Aboriginal relics, bone implements are much more. rare than those of stone, for

when exposed to the weather they are soon destroyed, and the

and scraped down with great labor. Among the many broken bones that are found, are some which FIG. 15. show the grooves made by the stone saws in cutting out these tools.

The bones of animals, like those in similar situations in other countries, are all split and broken to extract the marrow, and the teeth and jaws of bears, and deer, and beaver are as well preserved as though buried yesterday. Many necklace bones like Fig. 17, are found which show a great deal of laborious scraping.

Necklaces of this kind were made by some of the tribes of the finger bones of their enemies, the squaws usually commencing the torture of a prisoner by sawing off the forefingers with a clam shell.

Upon all the village sites, upon the surface of the fields, and in the graves, the usual forms of stone implements are found, those

that are rough and chipped predominating largely over those that are ground and polished. Indeed one is greatly impressed with the remarkable similarity that exists between these rough stone implements and the palæolithic flints from the caves and gravel beds of Europe, and it would seem to be no difficult task to duplicate in a great measure from the surface finds, the engravings of these implements as given in the European archæological works on the subject. Many of those found here resemble the cave and gravel implements much more closely than any shown in this article.

Arrow heads are of many forms, and are made of various kinds

of hornstone, and slate, and spar. Some of them are exceedingly rough, while others are flaked with great skill and are beautiful specimens of workmanship. All the forms of flint