Fig. 55.—An Earthenware Vessel, with portions of string attached to handles (1⁄2).
Among other relics from this station were:—Two daggers of bronze, one still retaining a couple of rivets for fixing the handle ([Fig. 60], No. 1); two bronze pins (Nos. 2 and 4); a wooden anchor 3¼ feet long, terminating at one end with two hooks and at the other with a hole as if for attaching a rope; a canoe 6 feet long, 3¼ feet wide, and about a foot in depth ([Fig. 57]); near the canoe lay a bronze drill ([Fig. 60], No. 5); and a neat spindle-whorl of baked clay 1½ inch in diameter (No. 22). Among the more recent finds are numerous flint arrow-heads and scrapers (No. 8); a spindle-whorl of soapstone, pietra ollare (No. 16); a wooden dish and perforated floats for nets; earthenware dishes of great variety (No. 12); and 16 conical beads of vitreous paste, which, when strung together, formed a handsome necklace (No. 9); and a large cake of burnt clay perforated in the middle (No. 18).
Fig. 56.—Earthenware Vessel (1⁄2).
Fig. 57.—Portion of Canoe.