Abstract
The wide utilization by primitive peoples of animal teeth for implements as well as for ornamental purposes is too well known to archaeologists and ethnologists to require further comment. The object of the present paper is to describe and classify those types of rodenttooth implements found locally, to discuss the method of manufacture and to present evidence as to the grinding of the canine teeth of various carnivores in all probability for utilitarian purposes. The material upon which this study is based has been collected by the author from several sites on or near Naskeag Point, Brooklin, Maine, chiefly from a single shell heap on Harbor Island.
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