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incised bone
incised bone
incised bone
Animal bone (possibly the leg bone of a deer) incised with rings on both ends and in the middle. May have been used as the handle or hand-piece to a string for carrying weights, as the inner edge of one end is worn round and smooth, but it may also have been worn on a string passing round the neck. Normal School Collection.
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Bone (possibly leg bone of deer)
Incised
From Annual Archaeological Report of Ontario for 1891. Provincial archaeologist David Boyle wrote: "It is made from the leg-bone of a deer, probably. The surface is highly polished, and the rings - five in the middle and four at each end - are rudely cut. The supposition that it may have been used as the handle or hand-piece to a string for carrying weights, receives some force from the fact that the inner edge of one end is worn round and smooth, just as it would be in employed in this way. It is quite as likely, however, that it was simply worn on a string passing round the neck. The inside of the other end is too much weathered to offer much evidence, but even there are indications of similar wear." See publication history below for full citation details.
ROM record item name: Bead
ROM record notes it was collected by W. G. Long in 1886.
Item is described in the Annual Archaeological Report of Ontario for 1891. See publication history below for full citation details.
Provenance
Item is part of Mr. W.G. Long's findings in the county of York.
Sketch & comment appear in the Annual Archaeological Reports of Ontario: David Boyle, "Notes on Specimens," in Fourth Annual Report of the Canadian Institute, Session of 1890-91, being an Appendix to the Report of the Minister of Education, Ontario, 1891 (Toronto: Warwick & Sons, 1891) p. 54-55.
A complete set of the AAROs are available in the library of the Royal Ontario Museum. This volume is also available as a digital copy through the Internet Archive (www.archive.org)
About This GRASAC Record
Unknown artist, incised bone. Currently in the Royal Ontario Museum, NS7291. Item photographed and described as part of a GRASAC research trip December 2008; GRASAC item id 25398.
Record created as a result of a GRASAC-sponsored research trip to the Royal Ontario Museum, December 15-19, 2008. Research costs supported by a SSHRC Aboriginal Research Grant (2007-2010, Ruth Phillips, PI). Record created during post-trip clean up by project RA Lisa Truong, under the supervision of Heidi Bohaker.