. Sixth annual report of the United States geological survey of the Territories, embracing portions of Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, and Utah : being a report of progress of the explorations for the year 1872. tusks of the elk, from an old Indian grave, which hadbeen made on the upijer part of a butte, and had become exposed bythe gradual wearing away of the latter. The perforated tusks of the elk are also a subject of some interest iuconnection with the history of primitive man. The tusks are worn inthe form of a necklace, as ornamental trophies, by the Shoshone andother Indians of the West. In a
. Sixth annual report of the United States geological survey of the Territories, embracing portions of Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, and Utah : being a report of progress of the explorations for the year 1872. tusks of the elk, from an old Indian grave, which hadbeen made on the upijer part of a butte, and had become exposed bythe gradual wearing away of the latter. The perforated tusks of the elk are also a subject of some interest iuconnection with the history of primitive man. The tusks are worn inthe form of a necklace, as ornamental trophies, by the Shoshone andother Indians of the West. In a recent number of the American Jour-nal of Science and Art for 1873, in a notice On fossil man of the cav-ern of Brousse-rousse, in , it is stated that besides a human skullassociated with the bones of many extinct animals, there were alsofound several flint knives and a number of perforated canines of thestag. It would thus appear that primitive man in Europe as well as inthis country used the same kind of ornaments, as he did the same kindof stone implements. Jig. 14 represents one of the perforated canines or tusks of theelk, found in the Indian grave as above indicated. Plate II. Fiji. Chipped stone, of gray flint or jasper, natural si/.e. Found withthe preceding. Plate 12 Fig. 10. Fig. 11.
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