Ontario Sessional Papers, 1897-98, . d, severalhundred extremely valuable specimens, including clay pipes, many ofwhich are quite unlike any previously in the museum : clay and stonegambling (?) discs; bone awls or needles, one of which is ten incheslong, and ornamented on one side with incised lines, formino- ;in irre-gular pattern ; hammer-stones, celts, rubbing stones, carbonized corn,beans and cherry- stones, besides numerous miscellaneous articles,including a great many fragments of pottery, some of which, it ishoped, may be matched and united. A large portion of this collectionhas
Ontario Sessional Papers, 1897-98, . d, severalhundred extremely valuable specimens, including clay pipes, many ofwhich are quite unlike any previously in the museum : clay and stonegambling (?) discs; bone awls or needles, one of which is ten incheslong, and ornamented on one side with incised lines, formino- ;in irre-gular pattern ; hammer-stones, celts, rubbing stones, carbonized corn,beans and cherry- stones, besides numerous miscellaneous articles,including a great many fragments of pottery, some of which, it ishoped, may be matched and united. A large portion of this collectionhas been procured by Mr. Laidlaws sifting carefully the material form-ing ash-beds on old camp-sites. All the specimens found thu^ havebeen kept in groups, and carefully numbered, and it is proposed topreserve this method of arrangement, so far as the Balsam Lake coun-try is concerned, thus to show, at a glance, all that has been left torepresent the domestic economy of the old-time Indian. NOTES ON SOME SPECIMENS. Mkthods of Working. -?^ m. Fig. 1—g diarreter. Illustrative of steps in primitive mans attempts to supply himselfwith tools from the materials that lay nearest to his hand, specimens 15 61 Victoria. Sessional Papers (No. 1). , A. 1898 like the one tigured here, are full of interest. It is a clingy bluishargillaceous pebble, nearly six inches in length, a little more than threein breaitli, and less than an inch and one-half in thickness at thethickest part. The natural shape of this pebble has suggested to someancient inhabitant its capability for adaptation as some sort of toolor weapon, probably a celt or tomahawk, but as it was not sufficientlysymmetrical for his purpose he has proceeded to reduce it to thedesired form by the primitive method of pecking. Nearly half of the side shown has been subjected to this process,while the rest of the surface retains its original smoothly, water-wornappearance. On the opposite side fully five-sixths of the whole surfacelias bee
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