. Ontario Sessional Papers, 1918, Fish-liooks, !ii)cl iKmi wliicli tliey were made—Dewey Colleetiou (Troquoian). ARCHAEOLOGICAL REPORT. 20. Harpoons and Sinkers—From Dewey Collection (Iroquoian). 30 EEPOET. On page 28 are illustrated a uuinbcr of bone fish-hooks, now in the mag-nificent collection of Alvin IT. Dewey, Esq., of Eochester, Page 28 showsthe metatarsal bones from which these hooks are made. The right side of page 28illustrates the method of manufacture from the long bones of birds. Page 29illustrates the Ijone harpoons, with stone net-sinkers.
. Ontario Sessional Papers, 1918, Fish-liooks, !ii)cl iKmi wliicli tliey were made—Dewey Colleetiou (Troquoian). ARCHAEOLOGICAL REPORT. 20. Harpoons and Sinkers—From Dewey Collection (Iroquoian). 30 EEPOET. On page 28 are illustrated a uuinbcr of bone fish-hooks, now in the mag-nificent collection of Alvin IT. Dewey, Esq., of Eochester, Page 28 showsthe metatarsal bones from which these hooks are made. The right side of page 28illustrates the method of manufacture from the long bones of birds. Page 29illustrates the Ijone harpoons, with stone net-sinkers. All these were collected byMr. Dewey from Iroquois sites in the neighbourhood of his city. Harpooxs. Mason, in his work on aboriginal American harpoons (), states: Thatin piercing devices the ends proposed are two, namely, to reach some vital part,and hence kill instantly, or to insert a barb, or toggle, under the skin and therebyretrieve the animal. A harpoon is a piercing and retrieving device, with amovable head. Few other inventions of savagery show better the progress ofthought in devising means for overcoming difficulties than the harpoo
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