INDIAN NOTES AND MONOGRAPHS A SERIES OF PUBLICA- TIONS RELATING TO THE AMERICAN ABORIGINES TWO ANTLER SPOONS FROM ONTARIO BY ALANSON SKINNER NEW YORK MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN HEYE POUNDATION 1920 LIBRARY UNlV?f SAN Publications of the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation THE GEORGE G. HEYE EXPEDITION CONTRIBUTIONS TO SOUTH AMER- ICAN ARCHAEOLOGY Vol.1 The Antiquities of Manabi, Ecuador: A Pre- liminary Report. By Marshall H. Saville. 1907. $25.00. Vol.2 The Antiquities of Manabi, Ecuador: Final Report. By Marshall H. Saville. 1910. $25.00. CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN, HEYE FOUNDATION Vol. 1 No. 1: Lucayan Artifacts from the Bahamas. By Theodoor de Booy . Reprinted from Amer. Anthropol., Vol. 15, 1913, No. 1. 50c. No. 2: Precolumbian Decoration of the Teeth in Ecuador, with some Account of the Oc- currence of the Custom in other parts of North and South America. By Marshall H. Saville. Reprinted from Amer. Anthropol., Vol. 15, 1913, No. 3. 50c. No. 3: Certain Kitchen-middens in Jamaica. By Theodoor de Booy. Reprinted from Amer. Anthropol., Vol. 15, 1913, No. 3. (Re- printed, 1919.) 50c. No. 4: Porto Rican Elbow-stones in the Heye Museum, with discussion of similar objects elsewhere. By J. Walter Fewkes. Reprinted from Amer Anthropol., Vol. 15, 1913, No. 3. 50c. INDIAN NOTES AND MONOGRAPHS A SERIES OF PUBLICA- TIONS RELATING TO THE AMERICAN ABORIGINES TWO ANTLER SPOONS FROM ONTARIO BY ALANSON SKINNER NEW YORK MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN HEYE FOUNDATION 1920 IMfe UNIVERSITY LIBRARY UNIVEftSllf OF CAUFORWA, SAN 1 " ""I A. CALIFORNt' THIS series of INDIAN NOTES AND MONO- GRAPHS is devoted primarily to the publica- tion of the results of studies by members of the staff of the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, and is uniform with HISPANIC NOTES AND MONOGRAPHS, published by the Hispanic Society of America, with which organization this Museum is in cordial cooperation. TWO ANTLER SPOONS FROM ONTARIO BY ALANSON SKINNER TWO ANTLER SPOONS FROM ONTARIO BY ALANSON SKINNER HE two carved antler spoons shown in the accompanying plate were obtained from graves in Atti- wandaron or Neutral cemeteries, a having been discovered at Saint Davids, Ontario, and b in a burial ground on the shore of Lake Medad, in Wentworth county, near Hamilton, Ontario. Bone and antler spoons, while known in New York and Ontario as products of the western Iro- quoian tribes, are by no means common, since the natives preferred spoons of wood and bark, or even used the unworked shells of freshwater clams. A few bone and antler spoons from New York and Canada have been illustrated, but all are squat and broad-bowled, like INDIAN NOTES ANTLER SPOONS the wooden forms still in use among the Iroquois. The specimens here shown, on the contrary, are long and slender, and the handle of a, from its wavy outline, may have been intended to represent a snake. Fig. b is also neatly carved, and in beauty surpasses any similar objects in the col- lections of the museums of either Canada or New York. Consul!: BE.VUCHAMP, William M., Horn and Bore Imp'ements of the New York Indians, J'ullftin 5'i. Xev< York Stale Museum, p. 315, Albany, 1902. INDIAN NOTES UC SOUTHERN REGIONAL LIBRARY FACILITY A 000 738 003 3 No. 5: Note on the Archaeology of Chiriqui. By George Grant MacCurdy. Reprinted from Amer. Anthropol., Vol. 15. 1913, No. 4. 50c. No. 6: Petroglyphs of Saint Vincent, British West Indies. By Thomas Huckerby. Re- printed from Amer. Anthropol., Vol. 16, 1914. No. 2. 50c. No. 7: Prehistoric Objects from a Shell-heap at Erin Bay, Trinidad. By J. Walter Fewkes. Reprinted from Amer. Anthropol., Vol. 16, 1914, No. 2. 50c. No. 8: Relations of Aboriginal Culture and En- vironment in the Lesser Antilles. By J. Walter Fewkes. Reprinted from Butt. Amer. Geogr. Soc., Vol. 46, 1914, No. 9, 50c. No. 9: Pottery from Certain Caves in Eastern Santo Domingo, West Indies. By Theodoor de Booy. Reprinted from Amer. Anthropol.. Vol. 17, 1915, No. 1. 50c. Vol.2 No. 1 : Exploration of a Munsee Cemetery near Montague, New Jersey. By George G. Heye and George H. Pepper. 1915. $1.00. No. 2: Engraved Celts from the Antilles. By J. Walter Fewkes. 1915. 50c. No. 3: Certain West Indian Superstitions Per- taining to Celts. By Theodoor de Booy. Reprinted from Journ. Amer. Folk-Lore. Vol. 28, No. 107, 1915. 50c. No. 4: The Nanticoke Community of Dela- ware. By Frank G. Speck. 1915. $1.00. No. 5: Notes on the Archeology of Margarita Island, Venezuela. By Theodoor de Booy. 1916. 50c. No. 6: Monolithic Axes and their Distribution in Ancient America. By Marshall H. Saville. 1916. 50c. Vol.3 Physical Anthropology of the Lenape or Dela- wares, and of the Eastern Indians in Gen- eral. By Ales Hrdlicka. (Bur. of Amer. Ethnol., Bull. 62, 1916, with added title-page and cover.) $1.00. Vol.4 No. 1 : The Technique of Porcupine-Quill Dec- oration among the North American Indians. By William C. Orchard. 1916. $1.00. No. 2: Certain Archeological Investigations in Trinidad, British West Indies. By Theo- door de Booy. Reprinted from Amer. An- thropol., Vol. 19, 1917, No. 4. 50c. No. 3 : The Nacoochee Mound in Georgia. By George G. Heye, F. W. Hodge, and George H. Pepper. 1918. $1.50. Vol.5 No. 1 : A Letter of Pedro de Alvarado Relating to his Expedition to Ecuador [15341. By Marshall H. Saville. 1917. 50c. No. 2: The Diegueno Ceremony of the Death- Images. ByE. H.Davis. 1919. 50c. No. 3: Certain Mounds in Haywood County, North Carolina, By George G. Heye. Re- printed from Holmes Anniversary Volume, 1916. 1919. 50c. No. 4: Exploration of Aboriginal Sites at Throgs Neck and Clasons Point, New York City. By Alanson Skinner. 1919. $1.00. Address: MUSEUM OP THE AMERICAN INDIAN, HEYE FOUNDATION, BROADWAY AT 155xH ST., NEW YORK CITY