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<span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span>Bonetools <<a href="mailto:bonetools-bounces@listserv.niif.hu">bonetools-bounces@listserv.niif.hu</a>> on behalf of Christian Gates St-Pierre <<a href="mailto:cgates70@yahoo.fr">cgates70@yahoo.fr</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Reply-To: </span>Christian Gates St-Pierre <<a href="mailto:cgates70@yahoo.fr">cgates70@yahoo.fr</a>>, "Mailing list for archaeologists of the research group for the study of object and waste of bone, antler. ivory and horn."
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<span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Tuesday, January 26, 2016 at 2:08 PM<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span>"Mailing list for archaeologists of the research group for the study of object and waste of bone, antler. ivory and horn." <<a href="mailto:bonetools@listserv.niif.hu">bonetools@listserv.niif.hu</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span>[Bonetools] A possible ivory pendant<br>
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<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453820453316_47210"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453820453316_47255">Hi folks,</span></div>
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<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453820453316_47330" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453820453316_47255">I have a colleague who found an artifact on an Iroquoian site in Ontario and has two questions about it:</span></div>
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<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453820453316_47546" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453820453316_47255">1) Could it be ivory?</span></div>
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<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453820453316_47331" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453820453316_47255">2) What function could it have? A pendant is the best interpretation I could think of considering the two (partial) perforations, but I wonder if there could be
any other possibilities I should consider?</span></div>
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<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453820453316_47431" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453820453316_47255">You can see pictures of the artifact on this link to Drobox, including a close-up picture of the fractured section showing the structural composition of the object:<br>
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<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453820453316_47469" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453820453316_47255">Any suggestion, hint or comment would be much appreciated.</span></div>
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<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1429623001091_14059" dir="ltr"><b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1429623001091_14084">Christian Gates St-Pierre</b>, PhD<br>
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<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1429623001091_14071" dir="ltr">Département d'anthropologie</div>
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<a href="mailto:christian.gates-st-pierre@umontreal.ca">christian.gates-st-pierre@umontreal.ca</a></div>
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