2. Implements of Antlers with Dull, Rounded Ends.
Three such objects have been found. One of them is seven and one-eighth inches long, diminishing, horn-like, toward the blunt point. It came from the middle stratum of the mound. It is represented in [pl. 8, fig. 7]. Another is a young branch of an antler, and the third is a mere fragment. The use of these objects, which were doubtless implements, cannot be conjectured.
3. Pointed Implements.
Only one fragmentary blade exists, about one inch long.
4. Straight, Truncated Implements.
Two specimens of this kind came from stratum V of the mound. They are wanting in other parts of the mound. One of them is reproduced in [pl. 8, fig. 4]. It diminishes, horn-like, toward the lower end. Here it is truncated abruptly, having a breadth of five-eighths inches. Unfortunately the upper end is incomplete. The other implement, 1-8722, is absolutely identical with the one just described.
The collection contains also a fragmentary bone tool, 1-9066, which was found in stratum X. It may have corresponded to the peculiar implement, reproduced by J. Wyman,[[151]] pl. 14, fig. 3 (with the spiral cuts at the upper end), which was found in the shellmounds of Massachusetts.
Implements of Tooth.
Only one object made of tooth was found, viz., 1-8736, fig. 36, in stratum V. It is a bear’s tooth perforated at the root, serving the purpose of ornament or amulet, and corresponds exactly to the typical illustration of the one from New Jersey;[[152]] here Abbott emphasizes the fact that such ornaments were the most common among the earlier and present-day Indians.
