. Ontario Sessional Papers, 1905, . hk The tool, of which this is a picture, was probably used aa achisel. Notwithstanding the immense number of beavers that musthave fallen into the hands of Canadian Indians, few traces of theanimal are found on old camp or village sites, anywhere in the Pro-vince. This may be owing to a custom requiring all the remainsof these animals to be burnt, and thus prevent them from becomingthe prey of dogs, a contingency which, on becoming known to thebeavers, would render other captures very difficult, if not impos-sible ! Although as has just been mention
. Ontario Sessional Papers, 1905, . hk The tool, of which this is a picture, was probably used aa achisel. Notwithstanding the immense number of beavers that musthave fallen into the hands of Canadian Indians, few traces of theanimal are found on old camp or village sites, anywhere in the Pro-vince. This may be owing to a custom requiring all the remainsof these animals to be burnt, and thus prevent them from becomingthe prey of dogs, a contingency which, on becoming known to thebeavers, would render other captures very difficult, if not impos-sible ! Although as has just been mentioned no example has been foundin this country, corresponding to figure 9, it may be that this is ow-ing to the decay of the handle and its wrappings, while the teeththemselves would scarcely show anything to indicate artificial use. But we know that the Indian used beaver teeth in another way,and most of the evidence comes to us from finds made by E. Laidlaw in the course of his thorough examinations of.
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