. Bulletin - New York State Museum. Science. AN ERIE INDIAN VILLAGE AND BURIAL SITE 543 shown in plate 34, figure 12, is nicely formed and polished. Per- haps it was a pottery marker. Two polished pieces of bone. Fig. 26 Bone beads smoothed on all sides were found in refuse pits. The one shown by figure 13 is grooved on either side. A bone knife blade, the point of which is broken, is shown in figure 14. Raccoon penis bones were found in several pits. All are smoothed and show signs of use, perhaps as hooks for coarse weaving. Figure 21 is that of a long flat bone implement resembling a shuttl
. Bulletin - New York State Museum. Science. AN ERIE INDIAN VILLAGE AND BURIAL SITE 543 shown in plate 34, figure 12, is nicely formed and polished. Per- haps it was a pottery marker. Two polished pieces of bone. Fig. 26 Bone beads smoothed on all sides were found in refuse pits. The one shown by figure 13 is grooved on either side. A bone knife blade, the point of which is broken, is shown in figure 14. Raccoon penis bones were found in several pits. All are smoothed and show signs of use, perhaps as hooks for coarse weaving. Figure 21 is that of a long flat bone implement resembling a shuttle. It is a fine specimen, being nicely smoothed and polished. The notch at one end is smoothly worked and shows no signs of being a broken eye. Figure 24 is probably that of a broken bone needle. Needles were rare in the site. Deer phalanges were found in abundance and most of them are worked to some degree [see pi. 34, fig. 5, 6]. Numbers were flattened on one side and some were worked down to cones with a perforation at one end, the end nearest the tip. These cones resemble the cups used in the cup and awl game common among the early Hurons and are probably parts of such apparatus [pi. 34, fig-4, 8]. Beaver teeth seem to have been used for scraping or 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 New York State Museum; New York State Museum. Albany : New York State Education Dept
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