. Ontario Sessional Papers, 1905, . Fiy;. 44. rig. 45. Fig. 46. Canadian combs which we claim it was quite possible to make, andfrequently were made, without the assistance of metal tools. 1904 ARCH^OLOGICAL REPORT. 37 The impossibility of accepting Dr. Petries advice respectingthe wii^eacres, is much to be regretted, for the old women to whomhe refers will almost certainly come to some such conclusion as hedeprecates, unless they either take his indirect warning to heart,or, what is more likely, ridicule the belief that there could be peoplein Egypt so long ago as six thousand years,
. Ontario Sessional Papers, 1905, . Fiy;. 44. rig. 45. Fig. 46. Canadian combs which we claim it was quite possible to make, andfrequently were made, without the assistance of metal tools. 1904 ARCH^OLOGICAL REPORT. 37 The impossibility of accepting Dr. Petries advice respectingthe wii^eacres, is much to be regretted, for the old women to whomhe refers will almost certainly come to some such conclusion as hedeprecates, unless they either take his indirect warning to heart,or, what is more likely, ridicule the belief that there could be peoplein Egypt so long ago as six thousand years, B. C. ! Some of the other combs found in Ontario are here illustrated. Figure 47, Laidlaw collection, is very rude in general form, butit is the only specimen of its kind having the teeth rounded, andotherwise well finished. It has been asserted that these bone combswere more for ornament than use, but this one at any rate does notsupport such a view. Ornamentally it would be useless, if for noother reason than that the teeth are not only
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