. The Canadian field-naturalist. 1998 Black, Reading, and Savage : Sea Mink from Canada 47. Figure 2. The right mandible of Sea Mink (M. macrodon) from the Weir site compared with the right mandible of an adult male Mink (M. vison). Above: M. macrodon (BgDq6:2794-l) collections of the Department of Anthropology, University of New Brunswick. Below: M. vison (FA207-14); collec- tions of the Faunal Osteo-archaeology Laboratory, Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto. tured in southern New Brunswick from 1981 to 1983. The Sea Mink bones are to larger than those of male Mink
. The Canadian field-naturalist. 1998 Black, Reading, and Savage : Sea Mink from Canada 47. Figure 2. The right mandible of Sea Mink (M. macrodon) from the Weir site compared with the right mandible of an adult male Mink (M. vison). Above: M. macrodon (BgDq6:2794-l) collections of the Department of Anthropology, University of New Brunswick. Below: M. vison (FA207-14); collec- tions of the Faunal Osteo-archaeology Laboratory, Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto. tured in southern New Brunswick from 1981 to 1983. The Sea Mink bones are to larger than those of male Mink and to larger than those of female Mink. Figure 2 shows the Weir site mandible compared to that of an adult male Mink. Sea Mink and prehistoric exchange systems Archaeological Sea Mink crania are typically frag- mented and many mandibles and extremity bones exhibit cut marks (Loomis 1911). Native people are assumed to have trapped these animals as food, and to have used the pelts for clothing. However, it is possible they also used Sea Mink for exchange and ceremonial purposes (see, for example. Waters and Mack 1962: 430). In both areas where Sea Mink bones were found at the Weir site, they are associated with stone tools and tool-making debris of a distinctive lithic material commonly called Kineo felsite or Kineo rhyolite, but more technically known as Kineo-Traveller Mountain porphyry (Doyle 1995: 304). This stone, y.^ ?; e -« c n c/) J3 (0 .1=1 ^ II JJ 00 II 5i s r~; r~; oq iri o ^ (N O m â' -H mom -^ -H -o _aj C U3 3 â 3 p â 3 c QJ 13 c <u â 3 03 u 3 "3 a ^ ^4-, ^.H B o o o O s .£ ^ .£ .2 Ml c â 3 Ml c J5 o _aj â ? _aj ^ (N r<-) ^ 5 S. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club. Ottawa, Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club
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