7 pieces of bone, mammalian. Distal limb bones. Belong to different species and bone types. 3 ceramic pipe stem fragments.

Bones have been hollowed out. All pieces have been cut. Some have been ground (rounded) at the end. Some have more pronounced rounding from the inside. LD suggests that the bones could have come from different strings, so that perhaps this is a composite. Strung by the museum on cotton thread.

None.

LD possible soundmaker

LD says there is no way this is from a necklace. This is something that would have been used to make a sound. Different materials would make different sounds. For conservation reasons, the rattle/soundmaker can't be sounded.

F. Barlow Cumberland, Catalogue and Notes of the Oronhyatekha Historical Collection (Toronto: Independent Order of Foresters, 1904), p 40, Item 198. "Bone Necklet."

Unknown artist, bone rattle. Currently in the Royal Ontario Museum, 911.3.44. Item photographed and described as part of a GRASAC research trip December 2008; GRASAC item id 859.

Record created during a GRASAC trip to Royal Ontario Museum December 15 to 19, 2008. Present in the archaeology lab: Lewis Debassige (LD), Heidi Bohaker (HB), Stacey Loyer (SL) and April Hawkins.