. Annual report. New York State Museum; Science; Science. 544 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM Several specimens are worked smooth at the bases [see pi. 33, fig. 1-3]. One has a slot running from the edge well toward the top. One very interesting specimen is that of a bone fishhook in process. If finished it would have been a small delicate hook. No sign of a barb appears. The specimen resembles some of those figured by Prof. F. W. Putnam in The Way Bone Fish Hooks Were Made in the Little Miami Valley. A pendantlike tube is shown in plate 33, figure 9. Both ends show the marks of cutting as do both of th
. Annual report. New York State Museum; Science; Science. 544 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM Several specimens are worked smooth at the bases [see pi. 33, fig. 1-3]. One has a slot running from the edge well toward the top. One very interesting specimen is that of a bone fishhook in process. If finished it would have been a small delicate hook. No sign of a barb appears. The specimen resembles some of those figured by Prof. F. W. Putnam in The Way Bone Fish Hooks Were Made in the Little Miami Valley. A pendantlike tube is shown in plate 33, figure 9. Both ends show the marks of cutting as do both of the pendants of deer's jaws shown in the next figures. Plate 33, figure 10 is notched and perforated lengthwise. It is perhaps not customary to rank deer jaws as implements. Nevertheless the Senecas up to within the last 10 years have used them when they could obtain them, for scraping corn from the green cob. The sharp teeth were raked over the kernels to break and cut the hulls and then the hold on the jaw changed and the milk and meat scraped out with the sharp edge that is nearest the chin. The writer secured one of these jaws in 1903 for the American Museum of Natural History. It is entirely probable that the Eries used deer jaws for the same purpose, as they were Iroquois and closely related to the Senecas. The Senecas have a name for the jaw when used as an implement of this kind, a name for the process, and called the corn so prepared " already ; Figure 27 is a drawing of one of these " jaw corn ;. Fig. 27 Deer jaw scraper A serrated rib from an ash pit is probably an implement of some kind. Its notched edges suggest its employment as a potter's tool. Perhaps it was used to roughen the surface of the clay which was afterward smoothed down [see text fig. 23]. Antler Antler objects were fairly numerous, though not of great variety. Those found in refuse pits were well preserved but those from graves were decayed and Please not
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