Ceremonial and Domestic Products of Aboriginal New England

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on Little Chebague Island, Casco Bay, Maine, and
although slightly damaged is a good example of this
artistic product. Great diversity exists in· the decorations
used on Combs, which doubtless were a development
of the Ceramic Age, since they occur in shell
Identification through an established classification
of stone implements is necessary for a better understanding
of the ancient past. Fortunately, this Society
has such a classification, fully illustrated, of which
copies are still available: Classification of Stone
Implements of the Northeast, Bulletin, Vol. 25, 10 . 1,
28 pp.
Especially, in the case of new Society members,
or anyone else who has not yet obtained this important
work, it may still be purchased from this Society at a
reduced price to members of $1.00, non-members $1.50.
EDITORIAL
deposits. How much earlier they were used is not
known. However, their absence in earlier deposits suggests
that their advent occurred as a part of woman's
industrial ascendancy during the start of Ceramic
times.
With the present distribution of Ceremonial and
Domestic Products of Aboriginal New England as a
sequel to the former implement classification, it seems
essential that both of these descriptive monographs
should appear together in everyone's files to insure a
complete account of man's accomplishments in the
Northeast.
Copies of the implement classification, Vol. 25,
No.1, are now available from a depleted supply,
which may soon require a second edition.